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...
Join fellow Flathead Audubon folks for a weekend of camping and birding, Friday through Sunday, May 31-June 2. Join FAS at the Tally Lake Campground for an extraordinary 3 days of birding and relaxing.Follow directions to the Group Loop. All the warbler species of NW Montana can usually be found here.Birding groups will go out...
Join local birders Bruce Tannehill and Gail Cleveland on Saturday, June 8 from 8 am until noon when they visit some of the best songbird areas on Whitefish Lake. The group will car pool to the site at head of the lake. The trip is limited to 15 people. To sign up and get more...
Join local expert birder Paul Rossi Saturday, June 22, 7 AM to 1 PM.as we explore a variety of habitats along Hwy 2 toward East Glacier, including the great bird diversity of the Lubec Lake and Coonsa Creek area. We’ll be doing a short walk (<1/2mile) on a well-developed trail. There will be an option...
Join refuge wildlife biologist Beverly Skinner on Sunday, June 23, 8:30 AM-2:00 PM.to tour the incredible wetlands and grasslands of this hidden jewel west of Kalispell. See nesting Trumpeter Swans and an abundance of shorebirds and waterfowl species associated with Palouse prairie, riparian/wetland, and larch/pine forest habitats of the 9000 acre Refuge, northwest of Marion,...
Join FAS on Saturday, June 29 from 8 AM-noon as we explore the Swan refuge wetlands and forests nearby. We’ll see some great birds (maybe bitterns, snipe, and redstarts). We’ll be walking out on to the wet refuge so knee-high boots are highly recommended! For more information call Cory Davis (406) 257-3166 or piranga99@gmail.com. Trip...
