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 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...
Guest speaker Dr. Dan Kotter will recount his experiences birding in Ecuador at the September 14 Flathead Audubon meeting. The meeting begins at 7 PM, and will be available via Zoom and phone for those who wish to attend. See instructions below. Dan’s tale is a mix of science and storytelling that involves avian and...
Join Montana Audubon’s Director of Policy & Science Amy Seaman for a series of online Raptor Identification Workshops! There is no question that learning how to identify raptors takes time. That is why we are going to help Flathead Audubon Society celebrate raptor week with a three-part raptor identification series and fundraiser. This is a...
Take a socially distanced Birds of Prey in Flight mini-course taught by Flathead Audubon Conservation Educator Denny Olson September 18 and 19 at Lone Pine State Park. On Friday afternoon, September 18, 2 - 4 PM, we will get some practice and tips on in-flight ID of rap- tors with life-sized silhouettes of the 16...
Join Flathead Audubon and the Flathead Land Trust on Thursday September 24 and Thursday, October 1 to view Sandhill Cranes as they stage in the West Valley on their fall migration. See these magnificent birds as they fly in from feeding in agricultural fields to roost for the night in pothole wetland ponds around sunset....
