Due to pandemic restrictions on safely gathering, this year's local Flathead Audubon CBCs will not be taking volunteers. The coordinators will be relying on individuals who have conducted the counts in the past to conduct them this year. They will reach out to those individuals for assistance. There will also not be a gathering at...
Flathead Audubon will feature Fisheries Biologist, Beth Gardner for the online Zoom presentation on Monday, January 11, 2021 at 7 PM. Have you ever heard of fish that doesn’t like to swim? Or how about the one so primitive and bizarre that it is surely a ghost from very ancient times? Beth has picked out...
Join FAS Conservation Educator and long-time teaching naturalist Denny Olson on Saturday, January 16 from 1-4 PM on a winter hike in Kalispell. Winter birds, bird songs, tracking, botanizing, and seat-of-the-pants interpretation will be the unstructured itinerary. We will visit one of the best spots in the area to see Pileated and other woodpeckers, many...
Flathead Audubon will offer a special ZOOM presentation on Monday, February 8 at 7 pm featuring Doug Bonham. Doug started birding in Maryland in 1966 with a guy named Chandler Robbins who had the audacity to publish a bird field guide to compete with what was then the only bird field guide - Roger Tory...
Join FAS on Wednesday, March 3 at 11:00AM-1:00PM and Saturday March 6 from 1:00PM – 3:00PM. We will take a winter trek along the Flathead River near the Steel Bridge and are likely to see Bald Eagles, Canada Geese, Ring-billed Gulls, woodpeckers, flickers, Blue Jays, waxwings, and other small passerines. We might see a Belted...
Join FAS on Wednesday, March 3 from 11:00AM-1:00PM and Saturday March 6 from 1:00PM – 3:00PM. We will take a winter trek along the Flathead River near the Steel Bridge and are likely to see Bald Eagles, Canada Geese, Ring-billed Gulls, woodpeckers, flickers, Blue Jays, waxwings, and other small passerines. We might see a Belted...
Flathead Audubon is offering a special Zoom presentation by Franz Ingelfinger on the Trumpeter Swan, Monday, March 8 at 7 pm. The Trumpeter Swan has made a remarkable recovery throughout Northwest Montana, thanks to a multiple-decade’s long re-introductory effort involving several cooperators. Today, swans breeding throughout the Flathead are the direct decedents of those efforts....
Join FAS on Sunday, March 21, from 8:00 am until noon. Dan Casey will lead a socially-distanced small group to visit Church Slough and other Somers area wetlands. Mid-to late March is the prime time to see large flocks of incoming migrants, including such seasonal specialties as Greater Scaup and Eurasian Wigeon. If the conditions...
Once again FAS will be hosting a trip to view the snow geese migration on Friday and Saturday, March 26-27, 2021. The Snow Geese are moving north from their California wintering grounds to their arctic nesting areas along with thousands of other waterfowl. They stop over at Freezout Lake WMA near Choteau to rest and...
Join FAS on Wednesday April 7 from 5pm-dark. We’ll visit several ponds in the West Valley area and see lots of migrating waterfowl, and look for shorebirds, raptors, and early passerines. Roads will be both paved and gravel and dirt. This trip will be primarily driving. To sign-up and learn the meeting location contact Cory...
Flathead Audubon will offer a special ZOOM presentation on Monday, April 12 at 7:00 PM featuring wildlife biologist John Marzluff, who will present a program on Ravens. Ravens are known to scavenge from wolves and people, but the degree to which they exploit these and other sources of food has not been studied in detail....
Join FAS Tuesday, April 20, from 9-11am. We will look for spring birds. Expect to see song birds, ducks, jays and woodpeckers. Bring binoculars and be prepared for an easy walk of up to 2.75 miles. Trails could be muddy so wear good shoes or boots. Restrooms and park benches are available. Trip leader: Darcy...