New Audubon coordinator cultivates community through birding
Jess Garby, the new education coordinator at the Flathead Audubon Society, along the Stillwater River at Owen Sowerwine Natural Area on Tuesday, Feb. 25. (Casey Kreider/Daily Inter Lake)
Casey Kreider
On an unusually warm February morning, the Owen Sowerwine Natural Area hummed with music. The percussive crunch of snow joined with the swish of Jess Garby’s polyester snow pants as she walked through the forest.
In between her steps was the distant roar of traffic and the clatter of dry pine needles overhead. Garby paused, hearing something else beneath the cacophony.
The trill of a red-winged blackbird. Black-capped chickadees chirping from the tree boughs. A solitary caw as a crow flew overhead.
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