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The February, 2022 Issue of the
Our Mission: To conserve and protect natural ecosystems, birds, and other wildlife.
February 21, 2022 Membership Meeting
7:00 PM - Zoom
Exploring the Antarctica Landscape

by Jen Mannas

Jen is a wildlife biologist with a Master’s degree in Wildlife Management who spent eight seasons studying marine mammals and seabirds as well as worked as a naturalist guide in Antarctica. She will present her experiences working and living in the frozen south and about the three species of brushtail penguins that inhabit the Antarctic Peninsula.
Meeting opens at 6:40 PM. Meeting starts at 7 PM
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Upcoming Programs
- Dale Meland
Self-Guided Field Trips
by Heather Gibson

Duwamish River

Birds like waterfront property as much as humans! Here are some self-guided birding stops along the Duwamish river. Barbara Petersen has led trips in this area, and provided wonderful suggestions!
Rainier Audubon Nature Journalers Monthly Zoom Gathering
February 27, 2022
3 PM - 4:30 PM

Cindy Flanagan

Topic - TBD
CONNECT TO NATURE AND TO OTHERS
Are you curious about nature and would like to find fun ways to record your observations?

Do you keep a journal, but wish you had a nature journaling community to share ideas and inspiration?

Or do you want to simply join a group and listen and learn more about how to nature journal?
Nest Box Project Update
But it's a Swallow's Nest Box!

Ken Schroeder, Dolly Owen, Jay Galvin and Barbara Petersen, members of Rainier Audubon's Nest Box Committee, met at Emerald Downs last week to clean out the sixteen swallow nest boxes along the south fence. Old boxes in poor condition had been removed in 2020, cleaned and refurbished by Ken Schroeder and Linda Carlson, and reinstalled in January of 2021.

Committee members were pleased to discover that fifteen of the sixteen Tree Swallow nest boxes were used last spring/summer. The nests all contained feathers of various duck species, perhaps collected by the swallows from nearby fields on the M Street properties. 

2021 CBC Results

Will be available here when they are ready.
Back to the Night - Birds and Light Pollution

A presentation from East Cascades Audubon Society by Mary Coolidge and Bill Kowalik
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Recordings of Membership Meetings

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