Get Ready for the Migration! Join Flathead Audubon Conservation Educator Denny Olson at the Lone Pine State Park Visitor Center for a workshop on the nuances of identifying raptors perching and in flight. Flathead Audubon has 30+ full-sized colored silhouettes of hawks, falcons, eagles and vultures, in various plumages, with a written key to identifying them...
Join veteran Wild Wing volunteers for exciting close views and discussions of raptors and their identifying characteristics. This will help with identifying migrating raptors at the Jewel Basin Hawk Watch or enhance any birding experience. The volunteers will be assisted by the Wild Wings educational birds of prey, of which 10 represent raptor species migrating...
Join FAS field trip leader Darcy Thomas for a morning of birdwatching. We will walk a portion of the paved Great Northern Historical Trail along Smith Lake before driving around the lake stopping at the boat launch and other pullouts along the way to view birds. Smith Lake is a complex of large, shallow wetlands...
Dan Casey will lead a trip to the Jewel Basin Hawk Watch site on Sunday, September 24th. The second half of September offers peak numbers and diversity of passing raptors. We expect to see well over 100 hawks of 10 or more species if conditions are right; our peak daily counts usually fall between September...
View Sandhill Cranes as they stage in the West Valley on their fall migration. See these magnificent birds as they fly out at sunrise to nearby agricultural fields where they feed during the day or in from their daily feeding in the fields to roost overnight in pothole wetland ponds around sunset. Join Denny Olson...
View Sandhill Cranes as they stage in the West Valley on their fall migration. See these magnificent birds as they fly out at sunrise to nearby agricultural fields where they feed during the day after a night of roosting in pothole wetland ponds. Join Darcy Thomas and Margaret Parodi for an early morning crane viewing...
Glacier National Park (GNP) will host its annual Mount Brown Hawk Watch Program on October 14 from 11am to 3pm near Lake McDonald Lodge. Meet at the Golden Eagle interpretive sign near Jammer Joe’s Restaurant parking lot in the Lake McDonald Lodge area. Snacks and hot beverages will be provided. Park biologists and volunteers will...
Join Shannon and Bridger Donaldson for an afternoon of birding the fields and wetlands in West Valley before winter sets in. We are likely to see a variety of waterfowl including swans, Snow Geese, Buffleheads and more. Raptors such as Red-tailed and Rough-legged Hawks are very likely, along with eagles. Possible songbirds include Snow Buntings,...
Join Shannon and Bridger Donaldson for some birding along Flathead Lake's North Shore. We expect to see eagles, Red-tailed Hawks, Great Horned Owls, Pygmy Nuthatches, and a variety of woodpeckers and other songbirds. We will spend the first hour or so birding in a stand of Ponderosa Pine with easy access and not a lot of walking. We...
The 2023 Libby Christmas Bird Count will be held on Thursday, December 14th. For more information or to get involved contact Gene Reckin at gnreckin@gmail.com or 406-291-8482.
The 49th annual Bigfork Christmas Bird Count will be held Saturday, December 16th. Participants will meet at 8am in the Flathead Lake Brewing parking lot (116 Holt Drive in Bigfork). First established in 1974, the Bigfork count circle is centered at the “Little Brown Church” north of Bigfork and includes over miles of the Swan...
Glacier National Park will be holding their Christmas Bird Count on Sunday, December 17th. For more information contact Glacier National Park wildlife biologist, Lisa Bate: lisa_bate@nps.gov or by phone:406-888-7833.
