SKAGIT AUDUBON NEEDS YOU!
Skagit Audubon thrives when our members give of their time and skills to help us. Whatever your talents are, we have many activities going on all year long and we could really use your help!!
Whether you have skills in helping at an event, birding id, planning activities, data entry, field trips, educating, or helping our leaders, there are many ways we can benefit from your skills. Perhaps you don’t even really know just yet what those skills are and where you can contribute them. Let us help you find out! You can share your time regularly, monthly, yearly, or on occasion with as little or as much as you wish. It’s up to you to set how much time you can give us. Our chapter, our leaders and the community habitat all will benefit and appreciate your time and energy.
If you’re interested, please click the button below and let us know! The information you share will only be used by SAS to contact you about volunteering. We never sell or share your information.
Please Read: Skagit Audubon Needs Your Help! - April 2026 Notice
Like any all-volunteer organization, Skagit Audubon can only function when members step forward to fill essential roles. Starting July 1st, key board positions will be vacant. These include President, Secretary, and several At-Large board positions. The duties of these offices are not onerous.
The primary responsibility of Skagit Audubon’s President is to set the agendas for the year’s 10 board meetings and preside over those and the 10 general membership meetings. In the President’s absence, other board members readily fill in. Ideally, the incoming President of Skagit Audubon will already have had experience serving on the board of this or some other Audubon chapter.
The Secretary takes the minutes at the board meetings. Most committee chairs submit their report in advance, making minutes-taking minimal and easy. The At-Large members attend board meetings to contribute their ideas and expertise, and they serve on one or more committees.
Skagit Audubon also needs more non-board volunteers to lead field trips, help with education programs, and staff the chapter’s table at festivals and other events.
With almost 500 members Skagit Audubon has a strong membership base. There is clearly interest in having a healthy local Audubon Society chapter in a place so important for birds, as well as in having a united voice on related environmental issues. Please think about how you could devote a small amount of time to keeping Skagit Audubon the vital organization it has been since its founding 44 years ago.
Contact any member of the Nominations Committee to express your interest in helping:
John Day president@skagitaudubon.org
Jon Barrett jonb@skagitaudubon.org
Ann Skinner anns@skagitaudubon.org
Tim Manns conservation@skagitaudubon.org
Purple Martin Nest Box Cleaning 2026
Our annual Purple Martin nest cleaning and maintenance day at Ship Harbor will be on April 18th this year. SAS volunteers are needed each spring before the Purple Martins arrive to lower, clean, repair, add fresh nesting material and re-hang each box.
If you would like to volunteer to help clean Purple Martin nests, help with monitoring the boxes from May-July for nesting activity, or have questions, please email Ann at: Anns@skagitaudubon.org.
Last Year’s Participants shown in the group photo, from left to right:
JoAnn Price, Renee Westland, Ann Skinner, Julie Kinder, Randy King, Stan Kosta
Lynn Kosta