Long-time Spokane Audubon Society (SAS) member Jim Acton, who passed away earlier this year, will be remembered on World Migratory Bird Day, October 11, at the Reardan Audubon Lakes Wildlife Area. The dedication will coincide with the bird walk from 10 a.m. – 12-noon.

Geese flying over Audubon Lakes at Reardan

Jim’s bird species data collection at Reardan over decades helped justify securing that public place. His fellow SAS birder Warren Hall, who passed away in 2009, led many field trips to Reardan, as noted on an engraved rock outside the area’s southside viewing blind. Jim will be similarly remembered with placement of an engraved rock near the same viewing blind.

The bird walk will start in the southside parking lot at 10 a.m. on Oct. 11, with a walk down the flat, paved quarter-mile trail to the viewing blind for a brief dedication of the Jim Acton memorial rock.

No registration is necessary for participation in this event.