by Kathy Ross Need help picking fruit on your property? Want to donate to local Food Banks or the Yellowstone Wolf and Bear Discovery Center? Check out the Flathead Food Gleaning Group Facebook page to connect with folks that can help pick and/or those who might be looking for fruit for winter. It will help…
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by Shannon Donaldson On Saturday, June 17, Flathead Audubon Society hosted the Flathead Valley Birdathon. Twenty-six participants on nine teams spent the day birding for a “caws” – raising money for the conservation easement in the Owen Sowerwine area. Although the morning began with plenty of rain showers and low visibility, by about 9 a.m. it began…
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by Pam Willison One in a Thousand! During Warbler Weekend at Tally Lake, Whitefish Lake Institute Executive Director Mike Koopal presented unique information on Tally Lake. Mike’s working hypothesis is that the lake is meromictic, meaning the deep lake water doesn’t mix with the surface water, leading to a depletion of dissolved oxygen at depth….
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by Kay Mitchell This spring, Flathead Audubon applied for a Community Grant from Whitefish Community Foundation. We were barely at half of the $100,000 we needed to raise for the conservation easement on the Owen Sowerwine natural area. When I typed $10,000 into the box asking how much we were requesting, a little voice in…
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by Dan Casey The Jewel Basin Hawk Watch has become known as one of the best places to count migrating accipiters in the Northern Rockies. Sharp-shinned and Cooper’s Hawks by the hundreds are joined by 16 other species of hawks, falcons and eagles as they fly the ridge on their way to wintering areas as…
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by Gael Bissell Great news! Thanks to 150 of you amazing FAS donors, plus hundreds of other supportive community members, we met the $100,000 Spring Challenge Match for the proposed Owen Sowerwine Conservation Easement! Many, many thanks to all of you who gave so generously! And our sincere thanks to Molly Miller and Mark Jungerman,…
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As your President Elect, I am looking forward to the upcoming year and all of our plans to accomplish great conservation and education work for the benefit of birds and the world they live in. This year we say good-bye to Cory Davis, who is moving away from the Flathead to pursue a job with…
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In honor of our late friend Lewis Young. – Wildlife Biologist and Bat Lover First published in April 2016 Hoary Bat by Lewis Young The Hoary Bat (Lasiurus cinerus) is one of the most striking and recognizable bats in North America. It is the largest in Montana and one of the largest in the U.S….
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Rare and Notables – May-August 2023 Spring migrants were generally late and in low overall abundance. An abnormally hot dry summer still provided a few surprises, with the first local record of a Red-headed Woodpecker near Kalispell, the seventh local record of a Yellow-breasted Chat (in Somers), an intriguing summer sighting of a Broad-winged Hawk…
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