White Oak Mountain Wildlife Management Area

Description

Elevation: 752 ft.

White Oak Mountain Wildlife Management Area is a veritable habitat mosaic of scrubby fields, regenerating forest and dense woodland. Numerous plantings of sunflowers and other seed plants in the area attract a high density of seed-eating species such as large congregations of mourning dove, blue grosbeak, indigo bunting and American goldfinch. Many other bird species are also found in the area such as wild turkey, red-tailed and Cooper’s hawks, ruby-throated hummingbird, red-bellied and downy woodpeckers, northern flicker, eastern kingbird, blue-gray gnatcatcher, eastern bluebird, brown thrasher, white-eyed and red-eyed vireos, field sparrow, red-winged blackbird and eastern meadowlark. Look carefully around to find young regenerating pine trees for prairie warblers and make sure to check the small ponds to see a wood duck. Butterflies are also numerous in the area with eastern tiger and spicebush swallowtails, common wood-nymph, eastern-tailed blue and a variety of skippers being present.

Notes:

• To Access the Site: A Restore the Wild Membership, Virginia hunting license, freshwater fishing license, boat registration, or an access permit is required.
• Hunting could be occurring at this site April 1 – May 31 and September 1 – February 28th. If you are visiting this site during hunting seasons, please wear blaze orange or blaze pink for safety.

Directions

From Danville, head north on US-29/Danville Expressway, turn right onto SR-825/Carter Lodge Rd, turn left onto SR-694/David Giles Ln, turn right onto SR-718/Snakepath Rd, and turn left onto Shotgun Rd.