-
-
Little Naturalists - Saturday
Saturday, December 20 at 10:00am
Introduce your three to five year-old to nature with this short talk and trail walk.
Full Info -
Little Naturalists - CANCELED FOR CHRISTMAS
Thursday, December 25 at 10:00am
Introduce your three- to five-year-old to nature with this short talk and trail walk.
Full Info -
Kevin Fitzpatrick
-
Karl Hohenstein
-
-
-
Kevin Fitzpatrick
-
Little Naturalists
Monday, January 12 at 10:00am
Introduce your three to five year-old to nature with this short talk and trail walk.
Full Info -
-
We're looking for a new Executive Director. For more information, visit this link.
This Week at Ivy Creek
Monday, December 15 | 9:00am
ICF Board Meeting
A meeting of the Board of Directors of the Ivy Creek Foundation. To learn about the current month's agenda or request presentation time at a board meeting, please contact the Executive Director or the President. Meetings are being held virtually until further notice.
Saturday, December 20 | 7:30am
Young Birder's Club
The Young Birder’s Club, a part of the Piedmont Bird Club, is available for youth between the ages of 7-16 interested in exploring Virginia’s natural world, with a focus on birds. With leaders and mentors, they explore various natural world settings seeking bird sightings in order to discover how to identify birds through sight, sound, behaviors, and habitat. It is free of charge. A parent/grandparent/guardian must remain on site with the minors and are welcome to accompany the group.
The group meets the first and third Saturdays each month in the ICNA parking lot at 7:30 AM. The birding activity takes approximately two hours. This program was recently approved for a $500 grant from the VSO (Virginia Society of Ornithologists) to support the program. These funds will be used to purchase new binoculars! Group mentors and leaders include include Reed Keller, a graduate from the original bird club, Tom Rapp, Louis Sokolow, Carol Wise, and Janet Paisley, members of the Piedmont Bird Club. In September, the group is hopes to offer an offsite visit to Afton Mountain to observe the hawk migration. Parents and guardians are responsible for transporting their child/children.
For more information, please contact Janet at paisley.janet@gmail.com.
Saturday, December 20 | 10:00am
Little Naturalists - Saturday
Introduce your three- to five-year-old to nature! Trained guides explore topics such as food chains, hibernation, how trees grow and more with three- to five-year-olds and their accompanying adults. The program starts indoors for 20-30 minutes where the children engage with the guides through reading nature centered books and doing a hands-on activity related to the learning in the book. This is followed with a short moderate hike on one of the ICNA trails. Little Naturalists meet on the second Mondays, third Saturdays, and fourth Thursdays of every month. Gatherings are held from 10:00 to 11:30 am. We prefer that people preregister for these programs. The link to register for the next third Saturday is here. Siblings are also welcome to attend.
Little Naturalists follow the weather cancellation policies for Albemarle County Schools. When the schools are closed or there is a late opening, the Little Naturalists will not meet on that day.
Be in the Know!
Want to be up on the latest at ICF? Sign up for our mailing list here to receive our newsletters and updates.
About Ivy Creek
Scenically shadowed by the Blue Ridge Mountains, the Ivy Creek Natural Area (ICNA) is a 219-acre preserve bordering the South Fork Rivanna Reservoir in Charlottesville, Virginia.
With seven miles of trails traversing a mix of upland woods, pine stands, fields, streams, and shoreline, ICNA is an ideal site to learn about the rich natural history characteristic of Central Virginia.