Aaron Wirsing will be the featured speaker at the Monday, December 13 virtual meeting of the Flathead Audubon Society at 7 PM. Aaron and his graduate students are interested in the impacts large predators have on prey populations and ecosystems. His talk will focus on the ecological effects of gray wolf recolonization in Washington, highlighting...
Join Derrick Rathe on Tuesday, December 21 from 10 am until noon for a winter walk at OSNA and explore the signs of birds. Winter is not normally the hot time of year to go out and see birds, but it is a great time to go out and see the stories birds leave behind....
Ben Deeble will be the guest speaker at the January 10, 2022 Flathead Audubon ZOOM meeting at 7 PM. Sharp-tailed grouse have been absent in Western Montana for over 20 years. This fall the reintroduction of sharp-tailed grouse to western Montana was launched. The effort culminates years of habitat analysis, planning, and partnership by private...
Join FAS Conservation Educator and long-time teaching naturalist Denny Olson for a winter hike in the Owen Sowerwine Natural Area on January 15 from 9AM- 12 PM (weather permitting). Winter birds, bird songs, tracking, botanizing, and seat-of-the-pants interpretation will be the unstructured itinerary. This is one of the best spots in the area to see...
Dan Casey will be the featured speaker at the February 14, 2022 Flathead Audubon meeting. Grassland-dependent bird species are the most rapidly declining North American birds. Luckily, diverse public/private partnerships have been formed to address the critical issue of declining habitat quality and quantity. Innovative approaches have been developed to define and deliver actions to...
Join FAS on Sunday, February 27 from 10 AM-noon for a winter field trip to the Creston Fish Hatchery. Margaret Parodi and Kathy Ross will host a morning of birding at the fish hatchery. We hope to see waterfowl, hawks, eagles, a myriad of small winter birds including chickadees, nuthatches, and woodpeckers, and if we...
Join Flathead Audubon for a winter hike on Sunday March 6, from 10AM – noon. FAS field trip leader Darcy Thomas will lead a winter trek through Lawrence Park in Kalispell. This is a mostly flat walk with varied terrain of up to three miles. We will likely see Canada Geese, ducks, woodpeckers, Blue Jays...
The regular monthly meeting will feature our own Conservation Educator, Denny Olson at the Gateway West Community Room on Monday, March14 at 7 PM. Birds have often been described in disparaging terms as "dodos" -- incapable of anything but instinctive behaviors, and having tiny brains with limited learning capacity. After all, they're just reptiles with...
Dan Casey will lead a socially-distanced small group to visit Church Slough and other Somers area wetlands on Sunday, March 20 from 8 am until noon. 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 are...
Join FAS field trip leader Darcy Thomas for a birding walk along the Flathead River at the Steel Bridge trails onTuesday, March 22. We are likely to see Bald Eagles, Gulls, and woodpeckers as well as various passerines. This is a flat walk on varied terrain of up to 2.5 miles. Since the spring equinox...
Join FAS on Friday and Saturday March 25–26 for the annual trek to Freezout Lake. Snow Geese are beginning to move from their 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 feed before finishing their journey We will...
Join FAS field trip leader Darcy Thomas on Tuesday, April 5 from 9-11:30 AM for a birding walk along the Flathead River at the Steel Bridge trails. We are likely to see Swallows, Woodpeckers, a few ducks, and various passerines. This is a mostly flat walk on varied terrain of just under three miles.We will...
