Purple Martin Watching at B&O HQ

🐦 Purple Martin Watching!!! 🐦 Friday July 25, 2025

Want to learn more about Purple Martins? Then come join Luke Donahue at the B&O Trail Headquarters to learn a little about all the conservation work being done at the 1-acre site, and then sit back, relax, and watch the Purple Martins feeding their young!

Four years ago, the property was merely a mowed lawn with the B&O Trail running through it. It now hosts a maintenance garage, picnic pavilion, native pollinator prairie, coniferous trees, and bird boxes for Bluebirds, Tree Swallows, Purple Martins, and even Northern Rough-winged Swallows!

Meet at 205 South Mill Street in Lexington, at 6:00 pm, and watch the martins with us for 1 ½ - 2 hours. Restrooms will be available, and additional parking can be found across from the Lexington Community Church, just off South Mill Street. Hope to see you there!

You may also like the following events from Richland County Park District:

• This Friday, 18th July, 09:00 pm, Owl Prowl at Gorman Nature Center in Lexington
• Next Saturday, 26th July, 09:00 am, Pollinator Festival at Gorman Nature Center in Lexington

Also check out other Trips & Adventurous Activities in Mansfield.