Join FAS on Thursday, April 22 from 8-11am and Wednesday April 28 from 8 am-11am. Please join Darcy and Kathy for a morning of birding and identifying native plants. You are likely to see ducks, geese, eagles, herons, Belted Kingfisher and hopefully American Dipper. As we walk an easy trail of about two miles, we...
Join FAS on Saturday, April 24th, from 8:00am -11:30 am, with Flathead Audubon Conservation Educator Denny Olson for an educational and entertaining walk. With the early songbird migrants arriving, and the river and slough waterfowl well into mating season, this should be a birdsong-heavy field trip. As a bonus, Denny can usually repeat the songs...
Join Flathead Audubon Conservation Educator Denny Olson for an early spring hike through the Owen Sowerwine Natural Area (OSNA) on Sunday, April 24th from 9 am until noon. The group will be searching for early river bottom and waterfowl migrants. Along the trails, Denny will explain the unusual hydrology and plant succession dynamics that have...
Join FAS on THREE Sunday mornings, April 25, May 9, and May 23 from 8am-10am. Dan Casey will be leading three Sunday morning bird walks along the Sonny Boone Memorial Trail in Somers during the spring migration season. This paved trail follows a portion of the old railroad bed along Somers Slough and offers excellent...
Join FAS on Thursday, April 22 from 8-11am and Wednesday April 28 from 8 am-11am. Please join Darcy and Kathy for a morning of birding and identifying native plants. You are likely to see ducks, geese, eagles, herons, Belted Kingfisher and hopefully American Dipper. As we walk an easy trail of about two miles, we...
With one gift to the Whitefish Community Foundation, you can support any number of the 80-plus participating local nonprofit organizations. Donors wishing to give online can make a gift between 8 a.m. Tuesday, May 4 and 12 p.m. Wednesday, May 5 here: https://whitefishcf.fcsuite.com/erp/donate/list/grant Donors wishing to make a gift in-person via check can do so at any...
With one gift to the Whitefish Community Foundation, you can support any number of the 80-plus participating local nonprofit organizations. Donors wishing to give online can make a gift between 8 a.m. Tuesday, May 4 and 12 p.m. Wednesday, May 5 here: https://whitefishcf.fcsuite.com/erp/donate/list/grant Donors wishing to make a gift in-person via check can do so at any...
Join FAS on THREE Sunday mornings, April 25, May 9, and May 23 from 8am-10am. Dan Casey will be leading three Sunday morning bird walks along the Sonny Boone Memorial Trail in Somers during the spring migration season. This paved trail follows a portion of the old railroad bed along Somers Slough and offers excellent...
Flathead Audubon will host a ZOOM program on Monday, May 10 at 7 PM featuring Charles B. van Rees. The talk will be divided into two parts. First, Charles will present research on migratory gull behavior from his Fulbright fellowship at Doñana biological station in Seville, Spain, and then review some of the species and...
A bird expert from Flathead Audubon and a land conservation specialist from Flathead Land Trust will co-lead the event on Saturday, May 15. The Flathead River to Lake Initiative is also sponsoring the field trip. We will bike and bird for about 10 miles along mostly paved roads in the lower Flathead Valley viewing existing...
Join Kathy Ross for a short walk on May 20, from 8-10 am in the beautiful spring bloom of native shrubs and forbs at Wayfarers’ State Park, Bigfork. Spotted Towhees flit around the waves of lupine understory, warbler species call high above in the trees, and catbirds search for insects amidst the spring blossoms of...
Join FAS on THREE Sunday mornings, April 25, May 9, and May 23 from 8am-10am. Dan Casey will be leading three Sunday morning bird walks along the Sonny Boone Memorial Trail in Somers during the spring migration season. This paved trail follows a portion of the old railroad bed along Somers Slough and offers excellent...
