Our Mission: To conserve and protect natural ecosystems, birds, and other wildlife.
May Program Night
Hummingbirds: Masters of the Air
May 20 @ 7:00 pm – 8:00 pm
by Connie Sidles
With their ability to hover in place, fly upside-down or backwards, and cross seas without stopping, hummingbirds seem immune to the ordinary laws of physics. Their jewel-tone feathers flash in the sun brighter than rubies or emeralds. Their wings flap faster than the eye can see. Their courtship flights defy gravity. These tiny dynamos of the avian world both fascinate and flummox us. Find out more about one of the fiercest birds in the animal kingdom, as master birder Connie Sidles shows you the wonders of hummingbirds.
Did you know that an American Robin can eat twenty-eight six-inch long earthworms a day? That’s fourteen feet worth of worms! They change their feeding habits depending on the time of day, eating more earthworms early in the day when they are easier to find and switching to fruit later in the day.
Raise Birdathon money for Rainier Audubon’s Nest Box Project expansion!
Join Barbara Petersen for a fundraising field trip to Eastern Washington!
Gather your own Birdathon sponsors for this trip, OR sponsor Barbara by pledging 25 cents per species found on the trip (or any donation amount). All funds will be used to purchase supplies for additional nest boxes
Join us for a “Swift Night Out” in the small town of Selleck, WA to see the amazing Vaux’s swifts return for the evening to their brick-chimney, communal roost site. Each May, thousands of migrating Vaux’s Swifts stop off for a well-deserved rest on their long journey to northern Canada. While the number of
Swift’s returning to this site is weather dependent, we can expect to see many hundreds or even thousands of birds after sunset.
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