Join FAS Conservation Educator and long-time teaching naturalist Denny Olson on a winter hike in Kalispell on Saturday, January 19 from 1-4 pm. Winter birds, bird songs, tracking, botanizing, and seat-of-the-pants interpretation will be the unstructured itinerary. This is one of the best spots in the area to see Pileated and other woodpeckers, many kinds...
Nicole Nelson will be the guest speaker at the Flathead Audubon meeting Monday, February 10 from 7-9 PM in the Gateway West Community Meeting Room in Kalispell. The program is free and open to the public. Nicole is from the Montana Wild Wings Recovery Center of Kalispell, and will be assisted by Flathead Audubon’s own...
Join Flathead Audubon on Sunday, February 16, 2020 from 10 am to 1 pm for a field trip in the Bigfork area for kids and kids at heart of all ages. Join us for a morning of birding and learning about our local birds, especially those that visit our feeders during the winter months. If...
Laura Katzman will share her African experience traveling to the Okavango Delta in Botswana and the Victoria Falls area of Zimbabwe at the Monday, March 9 Flathead Audubon meeting from 7-9 PM at the Gateway West Meeting Room in Kalispell. She will talk about the colorful and unique birds seen on her trip. In addition,...
CANCELED Join Flathead Audubon and Craig Hohenberger for a spring bird migration field trip on Sunday March 22, from 9 AM-1 PM. Craig will take us on a birding adventure at the south end of the Flathead Valley. The early migration will be underway. This is an exciting time of the year to see swans,...
CANCELED Join Flathead Audubon on Thursday and Friday, March 26-27, 2020. The Snow Geese are moving from their California wintering grounds to their arctic nesting areas along with thousands of other waterfowl. There is nothing like Snow Geese and the Rocky Mountains at the same time and place. The place is Freezeout Lake near Choteau;...
CANCELED Flathead Audubon will offer a field trip to the Owen Sowerwine Natural Area (OSNA), Kalispell on Sunday, April 19, 2020 from 9AM- 12 noon. . Join Flathead Audubon Conservation Educator Denny Olson for an early spring hike through OSNA searching for early river bottom and waterfowl migrants. Along the trails, Denny will explain the...
Join Flathead Audubon for a four day, three night birding blitz to central Montana on May 22-25, 2020. We’ll be visiting some of the premier birding hot spots in Central Montana including Bowdoin and Benton Lake National Wildlife Refuges, Tiber Reservoir, Giant Falls, Freezout Lake, plus many “specialty” locations known through the birding community. We...
Join Flathead Audubon at the Tally Lake Campground outside Whitefish for an extraordinary weekend of birding and relaxing. The spacious group pavilion campsite at the campground has been reserved for Friday, May 29 - May 31, 2020. Birding groups will go out early in the morning and focus on bird identification, birding by ear and...
In August of 2007, local birder Dan Casey was joined by Steve Hoffman (formerly Montana Audubon Director) to scout a potential raptor migration survey site in the Jewel Basin. Dan had a hunch, based in part on opportunistic sightings on fall hikes to Mt. Aeneas, that there was potential for this to be an important...
In place of our traditional September one-day Birds of Prey Festival at Lone Pine, we will offer a week-long celebration of birds of prey with cool opportunities for you and your family to see and learn more about these incredible flying predators. We actually begin focusing on birds of prey in late August, when our...
The BIRDS OF PREY IDENTIFICATON WORKSHOP will be held at the Wild Wings Raptor Recovery Center, Sunday September 13, 2 PM and Tuesday September 15, 2 PM. Join veteran Hawk Watch and Wild Wings volunteers for exciting close views and lively discussions of raptors and their identifying characteristics. This will help with identifying migrating raptors...
