Date: Sunday, 27 October 2024 Start/End: Meet at 9 AM and plan around two hours for the walk. Trip leader: Lin Stern Description: The walk is around the North Pool of Capitol Lake focusing on waterfowl. Location: Meet at Marathon Park, Olympia. Look for people with scopes and binoculars. Restrooms are available at Marathon Park. ... Read more
Date: Saturday, November 2 Time: 8:00 a.m. – 11:00 a.m. (still on PDT, but note the later starting time) Leader: Lin Stern Description: Birding with Breakfast at Capitol Lake. Participants will view birds on the water on both the North and South Pools, and related areas. Birding with Breakfast walks are especially appropriate for beginning ... Read more
When: Sunday, 3 November 9:30-11:30 AM Leader: Grace Thornton Description: Perhaps the single most overlooked gem in Lewis County, this state park is a tremendous masterpiece that spans 56 miles from Chehalis in Lewis County out to South Bend in Pacific County. It is a long trail that was once a railroad, so it is ... Read more
Join Capitol Land Trust (CLT) and Puget Sound Estuarium to witness one of nature’s most extraordinary displays of migration and resilience. Every fall thousands of chum salmon return from the Pacific Ocean to Johns Creek at our Bayshore Preserve where their lives began. Here they spawn, marking the transition of one generation of salmon to the next. Salmon docents ... Read more
Date: Saturday, 9 November 2024, 9-11 AM Trip leader: Jason Zolle Location: Meet on the beach at Tolmie State Park. Look for people with spotting scopes and binoculars. Tolmie State Park is in NE Thurston County. A Discover Pass is required at Tolmie State Park. Description: This outing involves scanning the waters at Tolmie State ... Read more
BIRDS AND BREW MONDAY NOVEMBER 18TH 4:30 – 6:00ish EQUAL LATIN RESTAURANT & BAR 2752 PACIFIC AVE SE OLYMPIA Birds and Brew is a social time for folks to gather and talk about birds and birding. This is open to Black Hills members and non-members alike. Although it starts at 4:30 pm, it is ... Read more
Next Book and Meeting Details Tuesday, November 19th at 5:30 PM RSVP for Meeting Location With both a pizza dinner and an amazing journal of art, The Backyard Bird Chronicles, behind us, it is now time to move ahead and dive into our next book: Flight Paths: How a Passionate and Quirky Group of Pioneering ... Read more
Do You Have a Teen in Your Life? Here is an opportunity to introduce them to birding.
