Notice change of date:  This November program on India and potluck dinner is November 11, Wednesday not  November 18th as posted.  Please change the date on your calendar thanks! 

November club potluck and program: Voyage to India, birding Assam and Arunachal Pradesh

 Join the Mansitee Audubon club members for a potluck at 6:00 PM on Wednesday November 18 at the Old Newland Schoolhouse hall on Schoedel Road, just west of M-22 in Manistee Township.

Bring a dish to pass or desert as well as your own place settings.

Potluck dinner and socializing at 6:00 and program at 7:00.  Hope to see you and any of your friends there!

October 2026 meeting

Manistee Audubon Meeting coming up! 

  Program:  Purple Martin Landlords, caring for and enhancing Manistee's largest Purple Martin Colony with Lara and Dan Oles.

Join us on Wednesday October 14th at 7:00PM 

Location:  The Old Newland Schoolhouse on Schoedel Road just west of M-22 in Manistee Twp.  2526 Schoedel Rd.  This is a NEW venue so remember this!

Refreshments provided!

 

North Point Park Bird Walk

 Join Brian Allen for a birding walk at North Point Park off from Seymor Rd. near Portage Point in Onekama.

Walk starts at 8:30 am.  Bring binoculars.  We hope to see the first of the fall migrants and residents of the park.  Date:  Thursday August 20, 2026.

Manistee Audubon Meeting April 22, 2026 at 7:00PM Program: Costa Rica birding by Sawyer Dawe

 Meeting at the Oak Grove meeting room at 309 Parkdale Ave.  (north US-31) in Manistee.

Club business meeting at 6:30 for election of officers and planning for the upcoming year.

Program at 7:00pm.

Come meet your friends and talk about birds and other wildlife.  Light refreshments will be served.

Costa Rica!

Presented by Sawyer Dawe, a resident of Ludington.  Sawyer is married and has four children and works for Consumer's Energy.  He has a degree in Conservation Leadership from Lake Superior State University.  He is both an excellent birder and photographer and will share some of his photographs and memories of his resent trip to Costa Rica.

Manistee Audubon Society Christmas Bird Count

Date:  Friday December 19th

Join us for the Christmas Bird Count.  If you are skilled in bird identification we need you to count in the field or at home at your feeders.  Field counters can join one of our many field leaders to count birds in their part of the Manistee area for either the morning or the entire day.  Feeder watchers count the birds coming into their feeders for a specified time.   For example two hours in the morning keeping track of how many of each species appear at at your feeders.

There is a compilation dinner for all the field observers at the home of Brian Allen the compiliar.

For instruction or for joining us in the count email me at Manisteebirder@gmail.com or call/text 231-510-9380.  Hope to see or hear from you soon!

November Members Slide Show Nov. 19, 2026 7:00pm

Join members of the Manistee Audubon for a members slidefest on Wednesday evening November 19 at 7:00pm.  Members will show slides of birds and wildlife and natural areas they have experienced in the last year.

Location: Oak Grove Hospitality Center 309 W. Parkdale Ave.  Manistee Michigan

Refreshments will be served.

For questions and if you are interested in presenting slides (between 10-20 per person)  contact Brian Allen at 231-510-9380.