Bird field trips

Flathead Audubon is offering a couple of field trips this month. A bird expert from Audubon and a land conservation specialist from Flathead Land Trust will co-lead this field trip on Saturday, May 15.

The event is also sponsored by the Flathead River to Lake Initiative.

The group will bike and bird for about 10 miles along mostly paved roads in the lower Flathead Valley viewing existing conservation easements including those at Church and Wiley sloughs, the new conservation easement protecting Reed’s Slough, and the Somers Beach property

that has been proposed to be a future state park.

If you are interested in participating, please register with Laura Katzman at Flathead Land Trust lkatzman@flatheadlandtrust. org or 752-8293.

In addition, Flathead Audubon will offer a Native Plants and Birds field trip at Wayfarers Park on Thursday May 20. Join Kathy Ross for a short walk in the beautiful spring bloom of native shrubs and forbs at Wayfarers’ State Park, Bigfork. Spotted Towhees flit around the waves of lupine understory, warbler species call high above in the trees, and catbirds search for insects amidst the spring blossoms of ninebark and serviceberry. Biodiversity abounds. Learn about the

native plants and birds that thrive in this lovely east shore landscape. This walk is limited to six participants but if enough interest, a second walk may be added. For meeting place and to sign up contact mtkat67@gmail.com.

For more information, go to www.flatheadaudubon.org