A bird’s eye view: Hot web sites in the Shenandoah Valley
Strasburg – With this article, we launch our new web feature, “Hot Sites.”
Daily, as editors of 7Bends.com and 7Bends of the Shenandoah Valley magazine, we come across websites that are of interest to our changing lives – from a practical, entertainment and/or technology perspective. And, we also receive emails from our visitors suggesting web sites and/or events of note – that pertain to the Shenandoah Valley.
This week, for example, I ran across the “Virginia Green” web site. This is a statewide program that works to reduce the environmental impacts of Virginia’s tourism industry. A partnership between the Virginia Tourism Corporation and the Virginia Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ), the program awards Virginia Green Certification to tourism-related business, such as hotels, restaurants and attractions – for taking voluntary actions to reduce harmful impacts on the environment.
The site also includes a digital “Virginia Green” Travel Guide, Green Travel Trips, Birding and Wildlife Trail information, A Map of Scenic Roads, a list of eco-friendly events happening all year long across the state, as well as the Virginia eNewsletter.
Learn all about birds in Winchester this weekend
One of the eco-friendly events listed for the Shenandoah Valley just so happens to be this Saturday, November 7 in Winchester, VA.
It’s the Shenandoah Audubon’s Birding Festival, being held from 10 a.m. to 3:30 p.m at the War Memorial Building in Jim Barnett Park – located at
1001 East Cork Street (take the Apple Blossom Mall exit off of I-81).
At this annual event, there will be demonstrations with live birds and talks about how to identify birds. Scouts can earn merit badges. Experts will be on-hand to answer all your birding questions, and basic birding and bird walks will be offered. Bird books and crafts – and top quality bird seed – also will be available for purchase.
Bird carving will be demonstrated and other conservation groups will have exhibits.
Admission is free and they’ll be many different fun activities for the children. Because the event is inside Winchester’s War Memorial building in Jim Barnett Park, it will be held rain or shine.
For more information, call (540) 667-6778, or visit the Northern Shenandoah Valley Audubon web site, which incidently, is another great local resource!
If you know of a hot web site in the Shenandoah Valley, drop us an email, and we may choose to feature it on 7Bends.com, the Event – News – Marketing – Communication Portal of the Shenandoah Valley. Send to editor at 7Bends.com.
(NOTE: The wonderful Aztec bird photo comes from another great web site – Lucy Pringle’s site that shows all of the latest photos she’s taken of crop circles in the United Kingdom, including one right across from Stonehenge.)
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