For just a fleeting fifteen minutes around sunset on late summer and early fall evenings in Monroe, thousands of Vaux’s Swifts assemble above the historic brick chimney at Frank Wagner Elementary School and drop, one small, synchronized group at a time, into the brick shaft where they will spend the night.

Eastside Audubon is finalizing a new agreement with the Redmond Library to host our program nights which will provide a fixed, consistent location for our monthly events.

In May 2027, reviving an Eastside Audubon tradition, Andy McCormick and Jeremy Lucas will co-lead a trip to Malheur National Wildlife Refuge near Burns, Oregon.

Brian Elieson won the Eastside Audubon Photo of the Month award for August for his photograph of a Western Tanager.

Pilchuck Audubon Society, our neighbor chapter to the north, needs help. Executive Director Brian Zinke is still short about a dozen volunteers for Swifts Night Out on Saturday, September 12, and he is asking Eastside Audubon members to fill the gap.

Ian Shultz, Eastside Audubon's Youth Board Member, has won the Youth category in the U.S. and Canada contest of the 2026 Audubon Photography Awards.

How land is developed shapes which birds stay and which ones go. That is the finding of a new University of Washington study, published in Scientific Reports.

Kids had fun exploring bugs near the Audubon kiosk at Marymoor Park on Saturday, August 15, at a Kids' Bug Class led by Eastside Audubon members Sue Andersen and David Droppers.

Jennifer Swift won the Eastside Audubon Photo of the Month award for July for her photograph of a Canada Goose splashing in a pond at Issaquah Highlands Dahlia Park.

Eastside Audubon is looking for volunteers to help keep our bioacoustic monitoring sites running at Marymoor Park and in Fall City. Each month, the role involves visiting the site, retrieving the recorded data, and refreshing the Swift One recording unit.

On this day in April, we received a message from a crow.

Eastside Audubon celebrated the summer solstice with back-to-back evening bird walks—our first since before COVID—and the weather couldn't have cooperated more.

The EAS interpretive kiosks at Marymoor Park have received a much-needed upgrade! All eight kiosk panels have been updated with new interpretive signs. This is a welcome update from our previous signage that hasn’t seen a renovation in many years.

Mike Hoefgen won the Eastside Audubon Photo of the Month award for June for his photograph of a female Common Merganser carrying her chicks on her back. This marked one of several times Mike earned the honor.

This past winter, a small recording device appeared on a tree near the Audubon Trail at Marymoor Park. It belonged to Vidhur Prabhu, a senior at the International Community School in Kirkland. Not surprisingly, next year he will go on to study computer science at the University of Washington.

The Puget Sound Seabird Survey (PSSS) is seeking volunteers to join this long-running community science program.

Dan Streiffert had been home just two days when he greeted the crowd at Eastside Audubon's May Program Night. He had driven back from Malheur National Wildlife Refuge in eastern Oregon, where he had photographed sandhill crane colts.

Kyle Callahan won the Eastside Audubon Photo of the Month award for May 2026 for his image of a Coppery-tailed Trogon photographed in Madera Canyon, Arizona.

With spring upon us, the attention of birders turns to finding warblers. These are the birds that Roger Tory Peterson called “the butterflies of the bird world.” Over 50 species of warblers are making their migrations of thousands of miles from the tropics of Central and South America to North America.

Song Han Ngo is off to Cornell University this fall. Cornell is widely regarded as the leading university in ornithology, and he'll be majoring in ornithology and computer science — a combination that suits him perfectly. We couldn't be prouder to have been a small part of his journey.