At our March 2024 General Meeting, longtime landscaper, Kathy Ross, along with Jessie Walthers of the Flathead Conservation District and Mackenzie Dey of the MSU Extension office discussed the importance of native plants and how you can incorporate them into your own backyards to improve habitat for our native animals and environment. The added bonus…
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Flathead Audubon Merch/Swag news!
Want to display your love for birds and bird conservation? Think that our Pileated Woodpecker logo would look great on a hat, on your head? We’ve got great news! Flathead Audubon swag is here! Baseball caps, warm thermal beanies, and visors will be available for purchase at the March 11 general meeting. We are also…
Read MoreMarch 2024 Program – Natives Rule! Converting your space into a bird sanctuary
Presented by Mackenzie Dey, Kathy Ross and Jessie Walthers Join three native landscaping experts and view a Flathead Audubon produced video about how plants and animals become “native”, and how intricately woven the millions of relationships between natives form the balance of nature – especially those relationships between plants, insects, and birds. Popcorn optional! Learn…
Read MoreFebruary 2024 presentation on Antarctica, South Georgia, and the Falkland Islands now available for replay!
At our February 2024 General Meeting, Lou Bruno regaled his tales aboard the National Geographic Explorer has he visited Antarctica, South Georgia, and the Falkland Islands. Far from a land of sea and ice, this rich ecosystem features seals, whales, albatrosses, petrels, and a variety of penguins in a varied landscape of rock, ice, grass,…
Read MoreHelping Hands Make Light Work – February 2024
by Darcy Thomas I have to say, we have the most incredible people at Flathead Audubon. Not only do you love birds and want to protect them and the places they live in, but you also want to help Flathead Audubon with its many activities and projects that make our chapter better. But we can…
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February 2024 Program – A Naturalist’s Journey to Antarctica
Presented by Lou Bruno Join Lou Bruno on an incredible epic journey aboard the National Geographic Explorer to the Antarctic, South Georgia and the Falkland Islands. This is the world of snow-capped peaks, icebergs, pristine endless seas, and an unbelievable diversity of marine mammals and pelagic birds. Lou will offer a naturalist’s perspective on the…
Read MoreJanuary 2024 presentation on the avian predators of Glacier National Park now available for replay!
At our January 2024 General Meeting, Jami Belt, Dee Baginski, and Jess Garby of Glacier National Park discussed what they’ve learned in years of monitoring Common Loons and Golden Eagles through their citizen science programs. From loon nest monitoring and banding for Common Loons as well as fall hawk watch migration counts for Golden Eagles,…
Read More50 years of the Bigfork Christmas Bird Count
by Linda Winnie The first Bigfork Christmas Bird Count (CBC) took place in December 1974. This means that the birders who combed the Bigfork Count Circle for birds on December 16 of this past year were engaged in an historic task. They were carrying out the 50th Bigfork CBC! Ron Lang, then pastor of the…
Read MoreThank you to Sliters Lumber & Building Supply!
by Pam Willison, Owen Sowerwine Chairperson A big THANK YOU to Sliters Lumber & Building Supply for awarding Flathead Audubon a grant to fund the purchase of an EZ-Ject Lance system, for use on the invasive buckthorn in Owen Sowerwine. This year Sliters celebrated their 90th anniversary by offering grants to 90 nonprofits and groups in the Flathead…
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