At our October 2022 General Meeting, Joshua Covill gave us a virtual tour of Costa Rica discussing the various ecotypes around the country and what birds to expect in each one. While only scratching the surface of what the country has to offer both in habitats and birds, he made everyone want to book a…
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by Pat Jaquith Finding Treasures in the Mud of Owen Sowerwine Natural Area Making a list of plant species in Owen Sowerwine seemed like an easy enough task in September when the trails were dry, vegetation was senescing, and the deciduous trees still had leaves and fruit, so I accepted the challenge and started out….
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by Lewis Young and Kate Stone With big game rifle hunting season approaching you can help wildlife by switching to non-lead bullets if you are hunter using lead bullets . Lead bullets, even copper jacketed lead bullets, fired from high velocity guns fragment on impact losing 20-40% of their mass when they hit an object….
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by Rod Wallette, Treasurer Flathead Audubon Society (FAS) participated in the Great Fish Challenge for our second year and this has now become our primary fundraising source. Once again we raised enough funds to qualify for a percentage of the Great Fish matching funds by raising $24,430. The matching amount of $11,200 brought our total…
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Flathead Audubon would like to thank all the dedicated and enthusiastic FAS volunteers who have recently led field trips. These include: Denny Olson, Darcy Thomas, Dan Casey, Bob Lee, Cory Davis, Maria Mantas, Laura Katzman, Beth Watne and the Wild Wings staff, Kathy Ross, Derrick Rathe, Shannon and Bridger Donaldson, Steve Gniadek and Lewis Young….
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Audubon members, neighbors, and friends of Owen Sowerwine are very excited about the possibility of Flathead Land Trust purchasing a perpetual conservation easement on Owen Sowerwine, a State School Trust parcel administered by Montana Department of Natural Resources and Conservation (DNRC). This unique and highly diverse riparian wetland parcel lies just east of Kalispell off…
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by Denny Olson Finally, after two years of pandemic cancellations, we had our 14th Annual Festival at Lone Pine State Park. The ever-energetic and humorous Kate Davis headlined our presenters with her falcons, Kurt Lindsay showed his gorgeous owl photos, Dan Casey expanded our abilities to ID raptors in flight, and showings of our bird…
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by Denny Olson We are now in the middle of the Jewel Basin Hawk Watch season, and things have begun to heat up — but the numbers of migrant raptors are slightly lower than recent years. Like true geeks, a number of us have been pulling up multiple weather forecasting websites every day, looking for…
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by Kay Mitchell The 2022 Great Fish Community Challenge came to a close on September 16. Flathead Audubon was an active player this year. For the first year since we have been involved, it was finally possible to hold all of the Great Fish events live and in person. Seventy nonprofit organizations participated in the…
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a little upside-down bird by Darcy Thomas Once called the Canada Nuthatch, the Red-breasted Nuthatch Sitta canadensis is a common bird throughout North America. The name nuthatch is likely from the word “nuthack”, referring to the nuthatches habit of hacking away at a seed with its bill to open it. For such a tiny bird…
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