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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:14.0pt'>Mass Audubon’s Wellfleet Bay Wildlife <span style='color:black'>Sanctuary</span></span></b><span style='color:black'> invites you to:</span><span style='color:#1F497D'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:14.0pt'>Wednesday, August 1, 7:30 – 8:30 p.m.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:14.0pt'>Kestrels and Cranberries, featuring live birds<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><i><span style='font-size:14.0pt'>Bird bander and conservationist <b>Joey Mason</b><o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Anyone who has ever seen an American Kestrel hover above a meadow just before diving on its prey can appreciate the beauty of this colorful bird of prey. Unfortunately, our smallest falcon is in big trouble. Learn everything you ever wanted to know about kestrels, and their reliance on cranberry bogs as a nesting habitat in this wonderful photographic presentation by Joanne "Joey" Mason, who will share her extensive research and conservation experiences with American kestrels.<br><br><b>A live kestrel and merlin will be featured for close and photographic looks.<br></b><br>Mason's talk with include insight and speculation into the kestrels' decline, which was recently documented by Mass Audubon's landmark State of the Birds report, as well as intriguing stories about what the kestrels are eating and what else is nesting in their boxes. (Kestrels nest in a variety of open habitats, especially rare grassland habitats.) <br><br>Joey Mason initiated the nest box project for American kestrels in southeastern Massachusetts 23 years ago. She has monitored American Kestrel nest boxes and banded young and adult Kestrels with U.S. Fish and Wildlife bands ever since. In 2000, she spearheaded the Raptor Retrofit Project to prevent osprey electrocutions on privately owned utility poles, and has been responsible for placement of numerous osprey nesting platforms. Joey has recently been working on a better management practices for landfills, to prevent raptors from getting injured and killed from methane burners.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Learn more: <a href="http://www.massaudubon.org/Nature_Connection/Sanctuaries/Wellfleet/news.php?id=2000&event=no">http://www.massaudubon.org/Nature_Connection/Sanctuaries/Wellfleet/news.php?id=2000&event=no</a><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Register online: <a href="https://www.massaudubon.org/catalog/listing.php?program_code=1125-WF12SU1">https://www.massaudubon.org/catalog/listing.php?program_code=1125-WF12SU1</a><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>Tickets may be purchased by calling 508.349.2615 or online at <a href="http://www.massaudubon.org/wellfleetbay">www.massaudubon.org/wellfleetbay</a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>Our July/ August program brochure can be found here: <a href="http://www.massaudubon.org/PDF/newsletters/Wellfleet_Bay_218.pdf">http://www.massaudubon.org/PDF/newsletters/Wellfleet_Bay_218.pdf</a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal>We hope that you will share this information with your colleagues and friends, and to see you at the sanctuary soon. Please let us know if you have any questions.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Best wishes,<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Amy<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Amy Fleischer, Education Director/ Public Programs Coordinator <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Mass Audubon's Wellfleet Bay Wildlife Sanctuary<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>PO Box 236, South Wellfleet, MA 02663<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><a href="mailto:afleischer@massaudubon.org">afleischer@massaudubon.org</a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>508-349-2615, ext 114</span> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Office Schedule: Tuesday - Saturday, 8:30 a.m. - 5 p.m.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Protecting the Nature of Massachusetts</span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'> <br></span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><a href="http://www.massaudubon.org/wellfleetbay">www.massaudubon.org/wellfleetbay</a></span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>