Tag: eastside audubon
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Are you still around?
Are you still around these parts this holiday weekend? Well, the weather forecast looks good, so we here at King County Parks suggest you take a little “staycation” and go tour your big backyard! No shortage of things to explore, just a hop skip and bike pedal away. May we offer some suggestions? Why of…
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Oh, this is different. Have you ever been “green birding”?
The birds will be singing their praises for the Eastside Audubon Society when they arrive by bus at their upcoming “green birding” trip! This mobile event is designed to take avid and new bird watchers alike on an urban bird watching tour via the King County Metro bus system while at the same time reducing…
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Comcast volunteers do a year’s worth of work on one Saturday!
In just a few hours last Saturday, April 27, 78 Comcast employees obliterated invasive blackberries and thistles and just about anything else that didn’t belong in the meadow at the Audubon BirdLoop at King County’s Marymoor Park. It would have taken 10 people showing up for a year of Eastside Audubon’s first-Saturday work parties at…
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Field Notes: Marymoor is for the birds
Last week, Marymoor Park staff arrived at the office to find some new neighbors – a nest full of baby junco birds! Suprisingly, these birds’ mama decided to set up shop near the office…but the babies don’t seem to mind their human neighbors. Did you know that Marymoor Park is a well-known birding hotspot? Longtime…