Registration for the 2026 Eastside Audubon CBC is open until December 13.

This was a busy year for the American Ornithological Society’s Checklist of North American Birds. In October, the AOS journal Ornithology published the 67th Supplement to the checklist which included splits for some prominent bird species.

Time spent nurturing a garden transforms into time spent deadheading flowers, raking leaves, and generally pruning the remnants of summer’s bounty. But a lack of action now can actually set up your yard to be a haven for wildlife as the season changes.

Taha Halim won the Eastside Audubon Photo of the Month award for October with a photograph of a Great Blue Heron.

Many Puget Sound beachgoers pass pigeon guillemot burrows without knowing it. The birds are dark and pigeon-sized, with a white wing patch, a red-lined mouth and, in flight, flaming red feet.

Those of you who are regulars at Marymoor Park may be wondering what all the new paths leading out from the Meadow Loop Trail are for. No, they are not for birding access further into the natural area but were made in preparation for the plant installations the Marymoor team has planned for this fall.

Birdability Week is coming in October again this year!  Birdability is an organization that sponsors and advocates for accessibility in birding for people with many different forms of disability and ability.

Would you be interested in helping our restoration at Marymoor, but can't make our monthly work parties, don’t want to deal with thorny blackberry bushes or get your hands dirty? Well, we have a job for you!

Margaret Larkin won the Eastside Audubon Photo of the Month award for September for her photograph of a Northern Hawk Owl taken in British Columbia.

Kendall Wiggins, leader of the monthly Tolt-MacDonald bird walk, is looking to gather a group of fellow bird enthusiasts to go to northern Tanzania (including Serengeti) in July 2027!

Two female Anna's hummingbirds struck the glass outside a Starbucks at the University of Washington while students waited in line for coffee. The birds lay on the pavement for 90 minutes. Several students stepped out with cups and bagels and stopped to help. Nothing could be done.

For just a fleeting fifteen minutes around sunset on late summer and early fall evenings in Monroe, thousands of Vaux’s Swifts assemble above the historic brick chimney at Frank Wagner Elementary School and drop, one small, synchronized group at a time, into the brick shaft where they will spend the night.

Eastside Audubon is finalizing a new agreement with the Redmond Library to host our program nights which will provide a fixed, consistent location for our monthly events.

In May 2027, reviving an Eastside Audubon tradition, Andy McCormick and Jeremy Lucas will co-lead a trip to Malheur National Wildlife Refuge near Burns, Oregon.

Brian Elieson won the Eastside Audubon Photo of the Month award for August for his photograph of a Western Tanager.

Pilchuck Audubon Society, our neighbor chapter to the north, needs help. Executive Director Brian Zinke is still short about a dozen volunteers for Swifts Night Out on Saturday, September 12, and he is asking Eastside Audubon members to fill the gap.

Ian Shultz, Eastside Audubon's Youth Board Member, has won the Youth category in the U.S. and Canada contest of the 2026 Audubon Photography Awards.

How land is developed shapes which birds stay and which ones go. That is the finding of a new University of Washington study, published in Scientific Reports.

Kids had fun exploring bugs near the Audubon kiosk at Marymoor Park on Saturday, August 15, at a Kids' Bug Class led by Eastside Audubon members Sue Andersen and David Droppers.

Jennifer Swift won the Eastside Audubon Photo of the Month award for July for her photograph of a Canada Goose splashing in a pond at Issaquah Highlands Dahlia Park.

Eastside Audubon is looking for volunteers to help keep our bioacoustic monitoring sites running at Marymoor Park and in Fall City. Each month, the role involves visiting the site, retrieving the recorded data, and refreshing the Swift One recording unit.

On this day in April, we received a message from a crow.