Date: 10/12/26 8:35 pm From: via Tweeters <tweeters...> Subject: [Tweeters] WOS Monthly Meeting, November 2, 2026 (online only)
The Washington Ornithological Society (WOS) is pleased to announce our next Monthly Meeting: on Monday, November 2, Haley Olson, Senior Resource Scientist with Puget Sound Energy’s Avian Protection Program will present, “PSE’s Avian Protection Program: Protecting Birds and Improving Power Reliability."
Puget Sound Energy (PSE) serves 1.2 million electricity and 900,000 natural gas customers across 10 counties in Washington, a 6,000 square-mile service area. Since early 2000, PSE has endeavored to serve its bird customers as well, moving osprey nests to safer locations, installing protective covers and bird diverters and constructing new avian-friendly power lines. Find out how PSE has been working to reduce outages, bird electrocutions, collisions and fire hazards through the efforts of its Avian Protection Program.
Our speaker, Haley Olson has worked on avian protection for PSE for almost 20 years, striving to reduce negative effects on birds and their habitats related to the electrical utility infrastructure. Through the years, she has collaborated with industry colleagues as well as wildlife rehabilitators and NGO partners in order to benefit birds throughout PSE’s service area. Haley was recently elected Vice Chair of the Avian Power Line Interaction Committee.
This meeting will be conducted virtually, via Zoom (no in-person attendance). Sign-in will begin at 7:15 pm, and the meeting commences at 7:30 pm. Please go to the WOS Monthly Meetings page https://wos.org/monthly-meetings/ for instructions on participation and to get the Zoom link.
When joining the meeting, we ask that you mute your device and make certain that your camera is turned off.
This meeting is open to all as WOS invites everyone in the wider birding community to attend. Thanks to the generosity of our presenters, recordings of past programs are available at the following link to the WOS YouTube Channel https://www.youtube.com/@washingtonornithologicalso7839/videos
If you are not yet a member of WOS, we hope you will consider becoming one at https://wos.org
