November Program – The Misunderstood Bat

Montana WILD Education Center 2668 Broadwater Ave, Helena, MT, United States

long-eared myotis - Photo by Tom Forwood Jr. For some, bats are associated with spooky haunted houses, witches on broomsticks and other forms of Halloween iconography – but for others, bats are among the most fascinating animals on earth. Join Tom Forwood, naturalist and...

Sevenmile Creek Presentation

Carroll College

Meadowlarks and Marsh Wrens: The Seasons and Surprises of One Place and Over 140 Bird Species On any day of the year in Helena - regardless of the season - birds are doing something interesting outside. In March when the sun reflects intensely from...

Free

December Program: A Galapagos and Ecuador Birding Travelogue

Montana WILD Education Center 2668 Broadwater Ave, Helena, MT, United States

Toucan BarbetSachatamia, Amagusa, Mindo area, EcuadorPhoto by John Winnie *PLEASE NOTE DATE CHANGE* Take a break from winter and join wildlife ecologist and photographer, John Winnie Jr. for an hour of exotic birds, wildlife and wild places. We'll take a virtual visual natural history...

Christmas Bird Count 2019

Jorgenson's Restaurant 1720 11th Ave, Helena, MT

Pine Grosbeak by Bob Martinka Last Chance Audubon would like to welcome members and friends of LCAS to join us for the 2019 Christmas Bird Count (CBC).  This family friendly event will take place on Saturday, December 14 with an evening potluck to follow. ...

Free

January Program – Where do Harlequin Ducks go in the Winter?

Montana WILD Education Center 2668 Broadwater Ave, Helena, MT, United States

Harlequin Duck by John Ashley Harlequin Ducks are colorful sea ducks that winter on the coast and breed on fast-moving mountain streams, but little is known about the timing and movement between breeding, molting and wintering areas. Join Kristina Smucker who will describe an...

February Program – Sevenmile Creek: Stories of Helena’s Birds

Montana WILD Education Center 2668 Broadwater Ave, Helena, MT, United States

Northern Shrike by Shane Sater At the Sevenmile Creek stream restoration site, a few miles outside of Helena, the stories of birds make up a calendar of the year. In March the sun reflects intensely from the last patches of wet snow, and a...

March Program – Movie Night! ‘The Path of the Condor’

Montana WILD Education Center 2668 Broadwater Ave, Helena, MT, United States

Andean Condor Join Last Chance Audubon for a ‘Movie Night’ featuring the Animal Planet film: “The Path of the Condor”. This film features the Andes mountain range, incredible landscapes and the Andean condors, regarded as ‘Kings of the Skies’.  Experience the life of the...

Christmas Bird Count

As the pandemic continues, without sign of easing soon, we are faced with another Christmas Bird Count (CBC) season in which it would once again endanger the health of our members to hold our usual and treasured group event. Therefore, the LCAS Board has...

May Program Meeting

Montana WILD Education Center 2668 Broadwater Ave, Helena, MT, United States

Snow Goose flock - Photo by Bob Martinka In the fall of 2016 when roughly 60,000 Snow Geese and Ross’s Geese landed in the Berkeley Pit in Butte; approximately 3,000 geese died despite round-the-clock hazing efforts that continued for days. Other than that event,...