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Birding, fishing programs to note this week

A sharp-shinned hawk is ready to release after volunteers trapped and banded the bird near Chelan Ridge during the prolific annual fall migration of raptors through the area. (Photo by Teri Pieper / The Spokesman-Review)
By Rich Landers richl@spokesman.com(509) 459-5508
A sharp-shinned hawk is ready to release after volunteers trapped and banded the bird near Chelan Ridge during the prolific annual fall migration of raptors through the area. (Photo by Teri Pieper / The Spokesman-Review)
A sharp-shinned hawk is ready to release after volunteers trapped and banded the bird near Chelan Ridge during the prolific annual fall migration of raptors through the area. (Photo by Teri Pieper / The Spokesman-Review)

CLUBS – Outdoors-related free programs of note this week include:

Birding the Pribilofs – program by Kris Buchler on exploring a remote nesting seabird and Asian vagrant birding hot spot in the Bering Sea, for Coeur d’Alene Audubon Society , 7 p.m. on Tuesday at Lutheran Church of the Master, 4800 Ramsey Rd.

Citizen science – Spokane Audubon members Jim and Bea Harrison present opportunities to help researchers such as working for the Smithsonian banding neotropical migrants, staffing hawk watch stations, monitoring dead pelagic birds on the Washington Coast and more, 7:30 p.m. on Wednesday at Riverview Retirement Community Building , 2117 E. North Crescent Ave.

Fly fishing – Advanced Chironomid Fishing Techniques by author and stillwater specialist Phil Rowley, for Spokane Fly Fishers , 7 p.m. on Wednesday, St. Francis School, 1104 W. Heroy Ave.

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