VOLUNTEER OPPORTUNITIES November 2024
VOLUNTEER OPPORTUNITIES Our chapter work is done completely by volunteers. You can join this hard-working, fun, committed group in any of a myriad of ways. We need nest boxes built, […]
Save the Date for our Annual Dinner!
Mark your calendars for March 1st, 2025. Maria Mudd Ruth will be our featured speaker and discuss her latest work on Pigeon Guillemots. As always, a delicious catered dinner and […]
Our Chapter’s Possible Name Change
Our Chapter’s Possible Name Change We will be hosting a special vote, open to members only, in March and April of 2025 to decide what our chapter’s name should be. […]
Donate Through Your IRA
TWO WAYS TO DONATE THROUGH YOUR IRA It’s “that time of year”, and people are thinking about making donations to support their favorite causes. If BHAS is on your […]
The State of Canada’s Birds
The State of Canada’s Birds In a poignant report composed by Birds Canada and Environment and Climate Change Canada, we can see recent population trends for multiple groups of birds, […]
Hurricane Helene and Fall Migration
Hurricane Helene and Fall Migration Avian migration—a spectacular annual phenomenon for which ornithologists are still gaining knowledge and understanding—has recently had more clues unveiled in the days before and after […]
Project Feeder Watch 2024
If you’re like me, you love watching the birds at your backyard bird feeder on a fall or winter day. Getting to know what kinds of birds regularly come is […]
ACOW 2024
BHAS Hosted ACOW this Year Kim Adelson Every year, Audubon chapter leaders from across the state come together in an event called “ACOW”, which stands for Audubon Council of […]
Bluebird Roundup
Kathleen Snyder The 2024 nesting season went very well for our nest boxes over multiple prairies in south Thurston County. We are almost finished cleaning them out – only 9 […]
A Forkful of Change
A Forkful of Change By Rachel Hudson I stared at it once more. It was still there, unmoving, innocuous enough. I had just overcome one of the longest days of […]