Eastside Audubon is now accepting applications for two funding opportunities supporting local conservation and education efforts.
The Puget Sound Seabird Survey is looking for birders in King County to join this established Community Science program.
In the quiet of the woods the bubbling song of the Ruby-crowned Kinglet erupted, and the high trill of the Brown Creeper signaled its presence. The hormonal drive to breed had birds singing regardless of the weather.
Eastside Audubon Youth Board member Song Han Ngo will be in the spotlight this fall as a Student Keynote Speaker at the Frontiers in Ornithology Student Symposium in Seattle on October 4, 2025.
Every year, the National Audubon Society’s Washington State office, known as “Audubon Washington”. A big part of the agenda is the awarding of the Helen Engle Volunteer of the Year Award. This award was inspired by Helen Engle who was honored with a Lifetime Achievement award during the 2013 National Audubon Convention.
The monthly Eastside Audubon Juanita Bay Bird Walk witnessed an “odd duck” — though this one had antlers. A buck deer first appeared east of the boardwalk observation deck, then slipped into the water and swam west toward Nelson Point.
To everyone’s surprise, the deer paddled within 25 yards of the deck, unfazed by the 15 or so people watching. Walk leader Chuck Guilford had never seen anything like it during the walks. “We’ve seen deer before, but never one that got in the lake and swam past us,” he said.
The deer lingered to munch on shoreline plants near Nelson Point before disappearing into the wooded area. A reminder that bird walks can bring some very odd surprises.
Migrating birds have made amazing journeys of thousands of miles from the tropics to seek suitable breeding areas in the northern boreal forest and tundra in North America, Europe, and Asia. Most of this migration occurs at night when most humans are sleeping, but researchers in recent years have developed techniques to track birds during their spring and fall migrations.
