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....
Join FAS on Saturday, August 10 from 8:30 PM-11PM for a trip with MT Fish, Wildlife & Parks. The group will go to a site with known bat activity and use electronic equipment to detect the ultrasonic calls of bats flying overhead. Mist nets will be used to capture bats for closer inspection. Wildlife biologists...
Long time Flathead Audubon member Dan Casey will be the guest speaker at the Monday, May 13 meeting at the Whitefish Community Center from 7-9 pm. Dan joined seven other folks from Montana and Oregon on a 15-day tour of Ghana with Ashanti African Tours in January 2018. The trip was organized and co-lead by...
Help Flathead Land Trust and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service celebrate adding 257 acres with valuable wetlands to the Smith Lake Waterfowl Production Area on Saturday, May 18, from 9am-noon. Bike and bird about 8.5 miles around the Smith Lake Waterfowl Production Area and view its new addition. We will be biking on both...
Join wildlife biologist Steve Gniadek for a spring birding expedition in Glacier National Park on Saturday, May 25, 2019, 7AM-noon. Expect to see our resident chickadee species as well as recent migrant arrivals like warblers, flycatchers and so many more avian friends. Loons and Harlequin Ducks are sometimes special visitors in this area. For directions...
Flathead Audubon and the Montana Native Plant Society are hosting walks with Anne Morley every Thursday in May at 10am. Meet Anne in downtown Bigfork by the bench between the Playhouse and Showthyme Restaurant. It is a fun morning adventure filled with native plant information and many opportunities to ID birds, so be sure to...
