Join experienced tracker and wildlife researcher Brian Baxter on Saturday, January 12th, 2019 from 9am-2:30 pm. Winter is a great time to improve the outdoor skills of identifying wild animals and their behavior by understanding the oldest writing known on the earth - animal tracking! The group will search for clues and evidence in the...
John Ashley will present Flathead Audubon's evening program on Monday, January 14 at 7 pm in the Community Room at the Gateway West Community Center in Kalispell. Black-footed ferrets are Montana's rarest native mammal. John will begin the program with a historical review of Black-footed Ferrets in North America, focusing on ferrets in Montana. After...
Join FAS Conservation Educator and long-time teaching naturalist Denny Olson for a winter hike on Saturday, February 16, 2019 from 10:00 AM-noon in Kalispell. 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...
Here is a field trip for kids and all ages. Explore the Bigfork and Swan River area on Sunday, February 17, 2019 from 10am-1pm. Join us for an exciting morning of birding and learning about our winter avian residents in this area. We will visit local feeders to identify and count wintering songbirds as part...
Join Wildlife Biologist Diane Boyd and Flathead Audubon on Saturday, February 23, 2019 for a day of adventure, on skis or snowshoes, in the Swan Refuge winter wonderland. The group will meet at 9:30am in Kalispell or 10am in Bigfork. Diane's experienced tracking skills will bring alive the stories written in the snow of otters,...
Flathead Audubon, North Fork Preservation Society and Flathead Wildlife are sponsoring renowned wolf biologist Diane Boyd, who will present a program on the status of the wolf recovery program on Thursday, March 7, 2019 from 7-9 pm in Room 26 at the Gateway West Community Room in Kalispell. Diane began studying wolf recovery in the...
Flathead Audubon will hold a volunteer work party on Saturday, March 9 from 9 AM to noon to help reduce the amount of Houndstongue weeds in the Owens Sowerwine Natural area and around the new education trail behind the Montessori school in Kalispell. The tall Houndstongue seed heads are sticking up above the snow, making...
The Flathead Audubon Society will present Helena author Jim Robbins on March 11, 2019. His book, The Wonder of Birds, was the Montana Book Award winner for 2018. He'll talk about the bird-human relationship and how we can creatively interpret birds to tell us more about the natural world. The meeting will be at 7:00...
Every spring the Snow Geese move 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 Freezeout Lake near Choteau. The group will meet on Saturday morning, March 23 at 10 AM to caravan/carpool to Choteau and arrive...
Join premier birder Craig Hohenberger and Flathead Audubon on Sunday, March 31, 2019 at 9AM. to explore the sloughs, wetlands and back roads of the waterfowl-abundant south end of the Flathead Valley. With the diversity of habitat we should find Swans and most species of ducks, along with Bluebirds, other early migrant songbirds and always...
Kathy Ross will be the guest speaker at the Flathead Audubon meeting on Monday, April 8 from 7-9 PM at the Gateway West Community Room in Kalispell. Did you know that over 90% of all terrestrial birds need insects, not seeds, to raise their young? Up to 5,000 caterpillars are needed to raise one nest...
Join FAS on Saturday, April 20 from 9am-12:00pm to visit several ponds in the West Valley area including the new public bird viewing area FAS helped create. We’ll see lots of migrating waterfowl, and look for shorebirds, raptors, and early passerines. Roads will be both paved and gravel/dirt and this trip will be primarily driving....
