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<P><STRONG>After School Nature Club</STRONG> will begin the third session on January 8.</P>
<P><STRONG>Winter Solstice Celebration<BR /></STRONG>December 22, 3 PM</P>
<P><STRONG>December School Vacation Adventures <BR /></STRONG>December 27 and 28</P></TD></TR>
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<P><STRONG>Why are Eiders Dying?<BR /></STRONG>December 13, 3:30 PM</P>
<P><STRONG>Owling at Wellfleet Bay<BR /></STRONG>December 27 6-10 PM</P>
<P><STRONG>Shore to Shore Hike<BR /></STRONG>December 28, 9 AM - 1 PM</P>
<P><STRONG>(Almost) End of Year Hike<BR /></STRONG>December 29, 2:30 - 4:30 PM</P></TD></TR>
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<P><FONT style="COLOR: #006633; FONT-FAMILY: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" color=#006633 size=1><STRONG>VOLUNTEERS</STRONG></FONT></P></TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE>
<P><STRONG>Citizen Science<BR /></STRONG>There will be many opportunites for volunteers to participate in research projects this winter and spring - monitoring of coastal waterbirds and diamondback terrapins, hawk watch at Pilgrim Heights, SEANET (see article), census and tag horseshoe crabs All these projects will require many volunteer hours to complete. Training is provided. Interested? Click <A title="cfranklin@massaudubon.org" href="mailto:cfranklin@massaudubon.org">here </A>to contact the volunteer coordinator.</P>
<P><STRONG>Exhibit Area Docents<BR /></STRONG>Exhibit area docents help our visitors with bird sightings at the feeder windows, questions about the new exhibits, and general Sanctuary orientation. We will have a meeting in mid January to talk about expanding this program. If you would like to attend, or just learn more about this opportunity, click <A title="cfranklin@massaudubon.org" href="mailto:cfranklin@massaudubon.org">here</A> to send a message to the volunteer coordinator.</P></TD></TR>
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<P><FONT style="COLOR: #006633; FONT-FAMILY: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" color=#006633 size=1><STRONG>DON'T FORGET!</STRONG><BR /><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><FONT style="COLOR: #000000" face="" color=#000000 size=2><STRONG>13th Annual Cape Cod Natural History Conference <BR /></STRONG></FONT></SPAN></FONT><FONT style="COLOR: #006633; FONT-FAMILY: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" color=#006633 size=1><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><FONT style="COLOR: #000000" face="" color=#000000 size=2>is on Saturday, March 8,<BR />from 9 AM to 4 PM.</FONT></SPAN></FONT></P></TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE></TD></TR>
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<P>Please remember to bring your <STRONG>membership card</STRONG> when you visit the Sanctuary for the fastest admission and discounts. <BR />Thank you!</P></TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE></TD></TR>
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<P>Consider a <A href="http://web.massaudubon.org/site/R?i=qqN3WtFTbzSv1Ol9nOFfSA.." target=_blank>Mass Audubon Gift Membership</A> for those on your holiday list. As a special bonus, gift recipients will also receive a Mass Audubon T-shirt.</P></TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE></TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE></TD><!-- CENTER DIVIDER BELOW
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<P align=right><STRONG>December 2007</STRONG></P></TD></TR>
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<P>After a summer (and fall!) break, Wellfleet Bay Wildlife Sanctuary's free monthly newsletter is back. If you do not want to receive this newsletter, or if you need to change your e-mail address, please click <A href="http://web.massaudubon.org/site/CO?i=TmdXyeuEmWpxXC7N6IGNemDLE82ZL7O4&cid=1361">here</A>. </P>
<P><STRONG><FONT face="" size=3>Cold Stunned Sea Turtles<BR /></FONT></STRONG>Sanctuary staff and many! volunteers have been walking <IMG height=113 alt="beached ridley" src="http://web.massaudubon.org/images/content/pagebuilder/12280.jpg" width=185 align=right border=0 />Cape Cod Bay beaches looking for <A title="sea turtles" href="http://web.massaudubon.org/site/R?i=2Hb0fSn8HH13rsKxWkfdLA.." target=_blank>stranded sea turtles</A>. Turtles found by the beach walkers are brought to the sanctuary, and those that survive are driven by volunteers up to the New England Aquarium where they are gradually warmed and cared for. As of December 5, 33 turtles have been found. Most are Kemp's ridleys, but a few green turtles have been brought in - both species are endangered. To find out what's happening this stranding season see our <A title="Wellfleet Bay blog" href="http://web.massaudubon.org/site/R?i=NSi4IiT_CZ5CVMmZpaiiuA.." target=_blank>new blog.</A></P>
<P><STRONG><FONT style="FONT-SIZE: 120%" size=3>Wellfleet Bay Blog<BR /></FONT></STRONG>Want to know what we're up to here at the sanctuary? We have all sorts of research projects, school classes, workshops, and after school programs and we have started a blog full of pictures and articles to keep you in touch with what's going on. We will be updating the blog several times a week and invite your comments and input. Watch for staff and volunteer profiles as well. Click <A title="Bob Prescott's blog welcome" href="http://web.massaudubon.org/site/R?i=w87y9LsRnbpm8k26UmNaMw..">here</A> to check it out!</P>
<P><SPAN class=headline>Eider die-offs<BR /></SPAN>Every fall thousands of common eiders migrate south from breeding sites in Canada and Maine and winter in large numbers<IMG height=89 alt="Common Eider" src="http://web.massaudubon.org/images/content/pagebuilder/12288.jpg" width=159 align=right border=0 /> along Cape shores. Over the past few years there has been a seasonal die-off of common eiders with large numbers of them found dead on Outer Cape beaches. Julie Ellis, coordinator of the <A title="Tufts University SEANET" href="http://web.massaudubon.org/site/R?i=ZCmhDtJkv9_jTgefWJM4GA.." target=_blank>SEANET</A> program at Tufts University will be <A title="Why are Eiders Dying?" href="http://web.massaudubon.org/site/R?i=FXC8ZE7Vu7wCSlbaMUDM1w.." target=_blank>at Wellfleet Bay </A>on Thursday December 13 at 3:30 PM to discuss findings from their study of these mortality events.</P>
<P>SEANET volunteers walk beaches to monitor eider and other seabird mortality. Julie will return to Wellfleet Bay on January 17, from 9:30 to 12:30 to train new volunteers for this program. Contact <A title="E-mail cfranklin@massaudubon.org" href="mailto:cfranklin@massaudubon.org">Cynthia Franklin</A>, Volunteer Coordinator, if interested.</P>
<P><FONT style="FONT-SIZE: 120%" size=3><STRONG>Winter Birds</STRONG><BR /></FONT>Cape Cod birders don't need groundhogs to predict the weather. We know that winter arrives on Razorbill wings and is given voice by the ice-chip notes of Common Redpolls. We know that when a Snowy Owl spends the day on a rooftop in Yarmouthport, that he is trying to tell us something - winter is here to stay. And for fans of our winter birds, this year is turning out to be a bounteous one. Unpredictable winter visitors like redpolls, crossbills, Evening Grosbeaks, Bohemian Waxwings, and Pine Grosbeaks have all been seen multiple times at various spots on the Cape, and all have been seen at least once here on the Sanctuary. </P>
<P>These species are irruptive, meaning they move south from their boreal forest breeding areas at unpredictable intervals, spurred by a failure of one of their major food crops in the north: conifer cones for crossbills, birch catkins for redpolls, and mountain ash berries for Pine Grosbeaks and Bohemian Waxwings. Here on the Cape we can find redpolls feeding on seaside goldenrod and other daisy-family seed heads or at your thistle feeder, crossbills in the pitch pines, and Bohemian Waxwings in the winterberry thickets of Truro, including at High Head and the Pamet River valley.</P>
<P>Stay abreast of Cape Cod wildlife sightings by visiting Mass Audubon's <A href="http://web.massaudubon.org/site/R?i=Xb6igs6jCwon09ptjKW-7w.." target=_blank>bird sightings </A>and clicking on "Cape Cod": </P>
<P><FONT face="" size=3><STRONG>Wellfleet Harbor Conference</STRONG></FONT><BR />The fifth annual State of Wellfleet Harbor Conference was held on November 10. Wellfleet Bay Sanctuary was again a cosponsor of this conference, whose goals are to inform the citizens of <IMG height=106 alt="Robert Buchsbaum speaking at Wellfleet Harbor Conference" src="http://web.massaudubon.org/images/content/pagebuilder/12285.jpg" width=153 align=right border=0 />Wellfleet and the Outer Cape about current research and monitoring projects taking place in Wellfleet Harbor, and to identify questions and concerns about the harbor.<BR /><BR />The more than 100 people who attended heard about and discussed the latest information on salt marsh dieback, local effects of global warming (R. Buchsbaum, Mass Audubon Regional Scientist, in picture above) , horseshoe crabs, the Mass Estuaries Project, and the Herring River saltmarsh restoration plan.</P></TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE></TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE></DIV><img src="http://web.massaudubon.org/site/PixelServer?j=e5J7pAvqEjTfq4ikAzlhWQ.." height="1" width="1">
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