March Raptor Trip On Tap
Sharp-shinned Hawk (photo by L. Harris)
MARCH RAPTOR TRIP
Join us on Saturday, March 3rd for a morning searching for raptors, along the roads of the northern Gallatin Valley. On this early spring trip the focus will be on finding raptors, but there should be some other interesting birds along this route. The trip ends early in the afternoon at Central Park Pond. We will meet at the Museum of the Rockies at 8:30 am, and leave at 8:45. Be sure to dress for the weather and bring any necessary drinks or snacks for this 4-5 hour trip. If you have a spotting scope that you can bring, that would be helpful. For more information call John Parker at 586-5863.
Madison Valley IBA Winter Bird Census Scheduled
Photo by Beth Johns
Its been an exciting winter with record setting Christmas Bird Counts, the Snowy Owl invasion, and odd birds wintering in Montana like the Great-tailed Grackle at the Gallatin Valley Mall. Its time to do our late winter bird survey on the Madison Valley IBA and it will be interesting to see if we turn up some different birds with the mild winter we have had this year.
The next IBA survey will be on Sunday, March 4th. We will meet at the Ennis Pharmacy Cafe in Ennis at 7:15 if you want to eat breakfast there or a little later if you don't need breakfast. We will try to leave the cafe for our bird counts by 8am. We should be done and ready to leave by noon.
For more information, please email Paulette Epple at bigskyepplesATmsn.com or call at 406-580-6186.