Join the 12/21/22 Anna’s Hummingbird Community Science Survey

We could use your help.  If you would like to participate in the North Central Washington hummingbird survey, the next opportunity is December 21, 2022. 

You can volunteer to be part of this community science network by sending an email to ncwahummerproject@gmail.com.

You can find background information about this survey on the hummingbird page of the North Central Washington Audubon website . Continue Reading →

Join the North Central Washington Hummingbird Project on March Equinox

Over the last decade, many people in North Central Washington have observed increasing numbers of over-wintering Anna’s Hummingbirds. North Central Washington Audubon Society has launched a community science study project to gather data to help answer questions about Anna’s Hummingbird Continue Reading →

Sense of Place: Surveying Raptors on the Waterville Plateau

This week’s guest post by Marilyn Sherling includes stunning photos taken this winter during monthly community science surveys on the Waterville Plateau. Marilyn and her daughter, Amanda, are monthly volunteers for the East Cascades Audubon Society’s Winter Raptors Survey Project. This winter, over 300 volunteers across five states participated, surveying 451 routes. Continue Reading →

Kitchen Window Community Science

Becoming a Project Feederwatch volunteer can be one way to battle feeling gloomy all winter long, November to April. Consider becoming a community scientist making bird observations as you look out your window. You will join over 20,000 Canadian and U.S. participants during this is kick-off week for Project Feederwatch: Continue Reading →

Desert Night Snake Discovered at Saddle Rock

Budding herpetologist*, Torsten Watkins, is a 6th grader at Orchard Middle School and he likes to spend his free time seeking out native reptiles and amphibians. He and his Dad Continue Reading →

National Habitat Network features Wenatchee Naturalist Lisa Robison

It was exciting to open the July enewsletter of the Habitat Network, a citizen science project offered by the Cornell Lab of Ornithology, and see the lead article about  Wenatchee Continue Reading →