Event Calendar

Monthly Meeting Cancellation Policy
If the weather is questionable, please check the Audubon Society of Kalamazoo’s website (www.kalamazooaudubon.org) or the ASK Facebook page for a cancellation announcement of our monthly meetings.

Field Trip Cancellation Policy
Field trips and bird counts are held rain or shine; they are only cancelled in severe weather. Contact the leader listed or check the ASK Facebook page if conditions are questionable.

Events in September 2025

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September 6, 2025

Saturday, September 6, 9:00 AM, Beginning Birding Walk at Wolf Lake State Fish Hatchery

Led by experienced birders from the Audubon Society of Kalamazoo. Free and open to the public. Meet at the second parking lot at Wolf Lake State Fish Hatchery in Mattawan, on County Road 652, just south off of M-43. All skill levels are welcome.

We enjoy nature while typically identifying 20-40 species of birds, plus butterflies, frogs, etc. Over 200 bird species have been sighted at Wolf Lake State Fish Hatchery, which offers a variety of habitats and easy walking trails. Annual highlights include colorful songbirds like orioles, warblers, and tanagers, hawks and eagles, kingfishers, Great Blue and Green Herons, and over 20 species of waterfowl. Eastern Bluebirds can be found year-round! Children accompanying adults are welcome. The focus is on birding fundamentals, and extra binoculars are always available. For further information, seewww.kalamazooaudubon.org. The walk typically takes about 2 hours (but feel free to arrive late or leave early). See articles below for descriptions of this summer's trips.

Wolf Lake State Fish Hatchery
34270 Co Rd 652
Mattawan, MI 49071
(269) 668-2696
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September 13, 2025

Saturday, September 13, 9:15 AM, Muskegon Wastewater Treatment Area

Leaders: Kent Martin (256) 751-3358, Susan Creager (269) 716-7988

Explore the wastewater lagoons, drying basins, and surrounding open country for visiting birds. This area is recognized by the state as an Important Bird Area. A variety of waterfowl, shorebirds, gulls, and raptors use this area as a migration layover, and potentially we could see several species not commonly found in the Kalamazoo area.

Meet at the D Avenue/US-131 commuter parking lot at 7:30 AM to join our caravan, or meet us at the Muskegon Wastewater Treatment Office (698 N. Maple Island Road, Muskegon, MI 49442) at 9:15 AM. We expect to spend about 3-3.5 hours exploring the site by car, stopping to view anything of interest.

A pass is required for each vehicle visiting the facility, and can be requested online at https://mcresourcerecoverycenter.com/rec-birdwatching-tours/apply-visitor-pass/, or by phone at (231) 724-3440 during normal business hours. There is no fee required.

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September 22, 2025

Our 2025–2026 program series will commence on September 22nd with a different perspective on birding. Our speaker this month will be Donna Posont, the Director of Birding by Ear and Beyond at the University of Michigan-Dearborn Environmental Interpretive Center. Her program expands the joys of birding and the outdoors to a specific audience, the blind and those with low vision. In the program, participants learn to recognize birds by sound, as well as also using the senses of hearing, touch, smell, and taste to experience nature and the environment.  Participants also learn physical and behavioral characteristics of the birds to match with the birdsongs.

Donna has been blind since age eight, sixty years ago. She has retinitis pigmentosa which progressively diminishes vision. It is hereditary, as she has two sisters who are also blind. Before she had any skills to live life as a blind person, she got a degree in Social Work from West Liberty University. She never got over wanting to study science. When her five children were mostly grown, she went to the University of Michigan-Dearborn and asked them what she could study to learn about nature so that she could share it with others who were blind. She began working towards a degree in Environmental Studies with a Naturalist focus. During that time she started a monthly program of Birding by Ear for people who are blind. After graduation it progressed to Birding by Ear and Beyond, and they enjoy and embrace all kinds of life in the natural world. They still have monthly programs and weekend events where they learn all about birds as well as frogs, trees, and they even have a Butterfly Garden that they built themselves. Donna can now say that her dream came true and she is sharing nature with people who are blind along with their families and friends and especially her fourteen grandchildren.

We will be trying to set up a Birding by Ear field demonstration in the afternoon on the 22nd. Look for an email sometime in September as the details of time and location can be provided.

We hope you'll join us on Monday, September 22nd, at People's Church, 1758 North 10th Street, Kalamazoo. This program is geared to all audiences, and we enthusiastically invite families and nature lovers of any age to join us!  Come at 6:30 PM (new time – half an hour earlier this year) for some refreshments and socializing. Snacks and beverages will be provided. It's helpful if you bring your own coffee cup. The one-hour program will start at 7:00 PM. Handicap parking and access is at either the front or the rear entrance of the building.

We will have a simultaneous Zoom link to the meeting for those who can’t make it or feel uncomfortable as yet to attend in person. This link will be available shortly before the meeting in the October newsletter that is emailed to you. We will also be recording the meeting for later viewing.

1758 10th Street N
Kalamazoo, MI 49009
(269) 375-3262
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