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 April 2026
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- Monthly Beginning Birding Walks
Monthly Beginning Birding Walks Monthly Beginning Birding Walks
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April 4, 2026Led 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, see www.kalamazooaudubon.org. The walk typically takes about 2 hours (but feel free to arrive late or leave early).
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- Weekly Kal-Haven Trail Walks
Weekly Kal-Haven Trail Walks Weekly Kal-Haven Trail Walks
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April 7, 2026Continuing the years-long tradition of Tuesday morning trail walks, our weekly Kal-Haven Trail walks will be on Tuesdays at 9:00 AM in April and May, starting April 7. We will meet and start at the trailhead on North 10th Street between G and H Avenues. A few of us walk 2.5 miles to the usually very birdy marsh at 8th Street and then back for a total of 5 miles, but anyone can cut that short and turn around at any time. There will not be a “leader,” although someone will be keeping a species list.
Feel free to arrange your own spotting or shuttling of cars. The Kal-Haven Trail walks are handicap accessible.
If you would like to join an email group to be notified of the latest status of the walks or to discuss weather conditions, please email Donna Keller at askpresident@
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- Field Trip: Kleinstuck/Little Sister Preserve
Field Trip: Kleinstuck/Little Sister Preserve Field Trip: Kleinstuck/Little Sister Preserve
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April 11, 2026Join us on a search for early spring migrants in one of Kalamazoo’s premier migration stopovers. We’ll circle the park on mostly level dirt trails, looking for early warblers, thrushes, migratory sparrows, and the first orioles and grosbeaks of the season. Winter Wrens often appear here, and Veery and Wood Thrush are often found. Resident owls and hawks might also make an appearance. Meet along Hudson Avenue south of Peeler Street at 9 AM.
(Kleinstuck/Little Sister Preserve, 2130 Hudson Avenue, Kalamazoo, Michigan)Leaders: Kent Martin (256) 751-3358, Susan Creager (269) 716-7988
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- Weekly Kal-Haven Trail Walks
Weekly Kal-Haven Trail Walks Weekly Kal-Haven Trail Walks
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April 14, 2026Continuing the years-long tradition of Tuesday morning trail walks, our weekly Kal-Haven Trail walks will be on Tuesdays at 9:00 AM in April and May, starting April 7. We will meet and start at the trailhead on North 10th Street between G and H Avenues. A few of us walk 2.5 miles to the usually very birdy marsh at 8th Street and then back for a total of 5 miles, but anyone can cut that short and turn around at any time. There will not be a “leader,” although someone will be keeping a species list.
Feel free to arrange your own spotting or shuttling of cars. The Kal-Haven Trail walks are handicap accessible.
If you would like to join an email group to be notified of the latest status of the walks or to discuss weather conditions, please email Donna Keller at askpresident@
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- Weekly Kal-Haven Trail Walks
Weekly Kal-Haven Trail Walks Weekly Kal-Haven Trail Walks
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April 21, 2026Continuing the years-long tradition of Tuesday morning trail walks, our weekly Kal-Haven Trail walks will be on Tuesdays at 9:00 AM in April and May, starting April 7. We will meet and start at the trailhead on North 10th Street between G and H Avenues. A few of us walk 2.5 miles to the usually very birdy marsh at 8th Street and then back for a total of 5 miles, but anyone can cut that short and turn around at any time. There will not be a “leader,” although someone will be keeping a species list.
Feel free to arrange your own spotting or shuttling of cars. The Kal-Haven Trail walks are handicap accessible.
If you would like to join an email group to be notified of the latest status of the walks or to discuss weather conditions, please email Donna Keller at askpresident@
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- Program - People, Places, Birds
Program - People, Places, Birds Program - People, Places, Birds
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April 27, 2026This month’s program will showcase Daniel Bernard’s year of birding across America. In 2025, Daniel Bernard embarked on a birding journey as crazy as it was unique: a quest to travel the entire country and see 100 species of birds in every single lower-48 state, meet up with local birders all across the country, and visit birding locales both legendary and unknown. This life-changing journey to explore the "People, Places, and Birds" of the American birding world saw Daniel living out of the back of his Subaru Crosstrek and would be filled with hardships and setbacks, but in the end - after travelling the farthest south, east, north, and west he'd ever been, birding with over 300 different birders across the country, and tallying 607 different species ─ Daniel would accomplish his goal of becoming perhaps the first person ever to see 100 species in every lower-48 state in a single year.
Growing up the son of an avid birder and naturalist, Daniel Bernard has held a lifelong enthusiasm for biology and nature, but the particular passion of birding eluded him for most of his life. After finally caving and accompanying his dad to the Biggest Week in American Birding Festival at Magee Marsh in 2018, Daniel quickly took to the hobby with an obsessive passion, and in 2022 set out to do a Michigan "Big Year" during which he recorded 337 species in Michigan.
We hope you'll join us on Monday, April 27th, at People's Church, 1758 North 10th Street, Kalamazoo. This program is geared toward all audiences, and we enthusiastically invite families and nature lovers of all ages 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 for those who can’t make it or feel uncomfortable attending in person. This link will be available shortly before the meeting in the May newsletter that is emailed to members and on our Facebook and website events page. We will also be recording the meeting for later viewing.
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- Weekly Kal-Haven Trail Walks
Weekly Kal-Haven Trail Walks Weekly Kal-Haven Trail Walks
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April 28, 2026Continuing the years-long tradition of Tuesday morning trail walks, our weekly Kal-Haven Trail walks will be on Tuesdays at 9:00 AM in April and May, starting April 7. We will meet and start at the trailhead on North 10th Street between G and H Avenues. A few of us walk 2.5 miles to the usually very birdy marsh at 8th Street and then back for a total of 5 miles, but anyone can cut that short and turn around at any time. There will not be a “leader,” although someone will be keeping a species list.
Feel free to arrange your own spotting or shuttling of cars. The Kal-Haven Trail walks are handicap accessible.
If you would like to join an email group to be notified of the latest status of the walks or to discuss weather conditions, please email Donna Keller at askpresident@
kalamazooaudubon.org. Kal-Haven Trailhead