PEACH PICKING IN CHARLOTTESVILLE, VIRGINIA

Don't you just want to take a big juicy bite out of one of these red and golden Cling peaches?  This year the weather has been perfect for peaches in our orchards located around Charlottesville, Virginia.

Come and stay with us at The Inn at Sugar Hollow Farm and a short 10 minute drive will land you at Henley's Orchard.  You'll enjoy this funky, old-style fruit stand with the most delicious, mouth watering peaches in Virginia.   And if you want to try picking your own, you can visit nearby Chile's Orchard.

If your trip includes touring Monticello, you can stop by Carter Mountain Orchard after your visit and take some back to the inn with you.  And, if you are a berry fan, you will really enjoy picking your own raspberries at The Berry Patch.  All in central Virginia, where the peaches are juicy and delicious!   

Charlottesville, Virginia - Bird Watching Haven, The Inn at Sugar Hollow Farm

We've been blessed with our first male scarlet tanager sighting of the summer.  The bright red orange body with coal black wings are very discernible from the male cardinal which we see almost every day. The scarlet tanagers are long distance migrants, wintering in South America.

Sugar Hollow is home to a wide variety of woodland birds.  In the last few weeks, we have sighted gold finches, indigo buntings, rufous-sided towhees, eastern bluebirds, brown thrashers and various sparrows, vireos and warblers which are harder to identify with casual observations.  We hear the melodic trills of wood thrushes in the adjacent forest daily.

Today, the catbird fledglings came out of their nest and are hiding in various nearby shrubs while their parents are scrambling to keep them all fed.  The hummingbird adults have been visiting our feeders daily, but we have yet to observe any of this year's family.  During your stay at The Inn at Sugar Hollow Farm, you will be amazed at the diverse array of this year's birds.  They are absolutely beautiful, in sound and in sight.