Meetings

Grays Harbor Audubon Society holds chapter meetings with informative programs for members, friends and the public on the second Sunday of the following months: February, April, June, October and December at the Hoquiam Timberland Library. Please note that we have changed our meeting day.

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Join us on Sunday, February 9, 2025,  at Hoquiam Library at 1:30 p.m.

Dan Varland will review the book Where the Falcon Flies, winner of the National Outdoor Book Award in 2024. He will share author Adam Shoalts’ adventures of traveling by canoe from Lake Erie to the northern coast of Labrador where Peregrine Falcons nest. He will follow this with his own adventures on a 1984 falcon survey by canoe above the Arctic Circle in Canada’s Northwest Territories.

Dan was born and raised in Rockford, Illinois. He has Bachelor and Master of Science degrees in Zoology from Eastern Illinois University and a PhD in Animal Ecology from Iowa State University. He is the founder and Executive Director of Coastal Raptors, a not-for-profit organization focused on research and education programs for Pacific Coast raptors https://coastalraptors.com
He and his wife Sue live on Grays Harbor west of Hoquiam.