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 nature stroll in Bigfork, with Anne Morley. The walks will take place every Thursday in May at 10 am. Meet Anne by the bench between the Playhouse and former Showthyme restaurant. This will be a fun morning adventure filled with native plant information and local bird identification. Bring binoculars and...
Join Flathead Audubon, Montana Native Plant Society- Flathead Chapter, and Jim Watson, ranch owner, on Wednesday, May 13 from 5:30-7:30pm for an evening adventure identifying birds and native plants on the Spring Book Ranch in Kalisell. Jim, who raises Tibetan yak, has created a sanctuary for wildlife in an increasingly urban setting. We will have...
Join Flathead Audubon, Montana Native Plant Society – Flathead Chapter, and Montana State Parks on Tuesday May 19 from 5:30-7:30pm for a short evening walk with naturalist and botanist Caroline Kruckeberg Clemans. The group will walk through the beautiful native landscapes at Harry Horn and Wayfarers Park in Bigfork. It is a great opportunity to...
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...
Join refuge wildlife biologist Beverly Skinner on Sunday, June 14, 8:30 AM-2 PM.and 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 9,000 acre refuge, northwest of Marion, MT....
Join Flathead Land Trust and Flathead Audubon on an 8.5-mile bike around the Smith Lake wetland complex to celebrate the latest conservation of 257 acres of important bird habitat. Small groups of 10 people will bike around the Smith Lake wetland complex, west of Kalispell, stopping to learn about birds and conservation projects. Mountain or...
GOING BATTY, Saturday July 18, 8:30-11pm has been cancelled
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...
