Join Darcy Thomas for a morning walk at Woodland Park on Saturday, January 7 from 10:30- noon. The Park is along Woodland Park Drive and across from Woodland Qwik Stop. Please leave your dogs at home. The terrain is level and accessible for most but be prepared for icy walkways (think YakTracks). We will look...
Join FAS Conservation Educator and long-time teaching naturalist Denny Olson on a winter hike in the Owen Sowerwine Natural Area on Sunday, January 8 from 9 AM until Noon. 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...
The Flathead Audubon General Meeting will be held on Monday, Janurary 9 at 7 PM and will feature our very own Dan Casey. Dan, a long-time eBird user and regional reviewer, will give us an overview of how eBird works, the many ways it can be used, and some of the amazing outputs Cornell has...
Dan Casey will lead a tour of the open country favored by winter raptors in the West Valley on Sunday, January 15 from 10 AM until 3 PM in, Creston and/or Lower Valley area near Somers. The route will be finalized based on local raptor surveys, and will focus on the roadside identification of the...
Join Shannon and Bridger Donaldson on Sunday, February 5 from noon-3 PM for an afternoon of birding along Flathead Lake’s north shore at the Flathead Waterfowl Production Area. Encompassing over 1,800 acres, the WPA is a wonderful mix of habitats. Although February is one of the slower birding months, the north shore keeps a nice...
Stephanie Gillin, Information and Education Program Manager for the Confederated Tribes, will be the guest speaker at the February 13 monthly meeting in Room 26 at the Gateway West Building in Kalispell from 7-9 PM. She will talk about the Bison Range Restoration. Stephanie has been a Wildlife Biologist for 21 years with the Confederated...
Join Darcy Thomas and Margaret Parodi on Friday, March 3 from 8 AM to 5 PM for a day observing raptors in the Mission Valley. We will leave Kalispell at 8 a.m. and spend the day looking for birds of prey, including owls, around Ninepipe National Wildlife Refuge and areas nearby. We will make frequent...
Dan Casey will lead a field trip on Sunday, March 19 from 8 a.m. until noon 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 are right,...
Snow Geese will soon move from the wintering grounds to their arctic nesting areas. They stop over at Freezout Lake WMA near Choteau to rest and feed for a few days before continuing their northward journey. Flathead Audubon should go visit them! We will meet on Sunday, March 26 at 10 AM at the parking...
Dr. Victoria Dreitz, Director of the Avian Science Center and Professor in Wildlife Biology, will be the featured speaker at the Monday, April 10 meeting of the Flathead Audubon Society at 7 p.m. Her presentation will cover herresearch using adaptive management processes to meet avian management objectives in Montana. She will also discuss birds as...
Join FAS field trip leader Darcy Thomas for a morning of birdwatching in Kila on Thursday, April 13 from 8 am until noon. The group will walk a portion of the paved Great Northern Historical Trail along Smith Lake before driving around the lake, stopping at the boat launch and other pull outs along the...
Join Jake Bramante on Saturday, April 15 from 8 AM until 1 PM as he takes us on a hike (approximately 4 miles) through Herron Park. We will keep our eyes (and ears) peeled for forest birds and look for some early spring migrants such as Spotted Towhees and Williamson’s Sapsuckers. The hike will include an...
