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Amazing Mammals: Bats
SPECIAL KID’S PROGRAM TIME: 7:00 P.M. (business meeting and adult program follow)
For our special "kids and adults" program, we are pleased to feature Michelle Noe, president of Bats Northwest. She will take Audubon members, young and old, on an exciting journey to learn about the amazing diversity of bats around the world and here in our own state. We will learn about fruit bats of the tropics and insect eating micro bats of the Pacific Northwest. What makes a bat unique? What else do they do besides just fly around at night?
Michelle has been working with bats since 2003. Her love of bats began with her undergraduate work for the University of Washington, working for the National Parks service to survey Olympic National Park. She then joined Bats Northwest and began work for the USFS and BLM on the Bat Grid. Bats NW envisions a future where the essential role of bats is understood, where the public recognizes the vital place of bats in our environment and economy, and where all are inspired by these amazing mammals. Bats NW does both educational and research work to help insure that future.
After the presentation, our young audience will be invited to join Eastside Audubon's Youth Education Committee to participate in a creative art project on bats.
Adults will stay for the business meeting, refreshments break and second half of the program, which features Eastside Audubon members and their beautiful images of birds and wildlife encountered on their trips. Ginger Holser, EAS Photo Group trip coordinator and biologist for the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife, will present "Birds, Wildlife and Landscapes of the Falklands Islands." Gary Luhm, professional kayaking and bird photographer and EAS webmaster, will follow with "Bird Photographer in Paradise: Lac Le Jeune, BC."
Please join us Thursday, February 25 at 7:00 (6:30 for the Activity Fair). Bring your children, grandchildren and the neighborhood kids to experience the uniqueness of bats. They will leave inspired by bats' remarkable attributes and invaluable contributions to our environment.
The Program Night presentations, refreshments, and meeting are free and open to the public. The events are held in the Northlake Unitarian Universalist Church, 308 4th Ave. S. (corner of 4th Ave. S. and State), Kirkland.
