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<p><strong><span style="font-size:14.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Dear Friends,</span></strong><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><strong><span style="font-size:14.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Taking a stay-cation? Need to get out? Join us for three wild programs next week!</span></strong><o:p></o:p></p>
<p align="center" style="text-align:center"><strong><span style="font-size:17.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:blue">Otters and Owls!</span></strong><b><br>
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</b><strong><span style="font-size:14.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:blue">Thursday, February 15th, 4:30 pm - 6 pm</span></strong><b><br>
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<strong><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Check out our newest Sanctuary - Barnstable Great Marsh - to search for these secretive creatures of wetland and woodland! Male and female Great Horned Owls are hooting to each other during their mid-winter
mating season and seeking abandoned nests to take over. Otters are feeding and frolicking in the ponds, leaving evidence of slides and scaly leftovers. Who knows what other winter wonders we may discover?</span></strong></b><o:p></o:p></p>
<p align="center" style="text-align:center"><strong><span style="font-size:17.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:blue">Whalewatching in February?</span></strong><b><br>
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<p align="center" style="text-align:center"><strong><span style="font-size:14.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:blue">Wednesday, February 15th, 1 pm - 2:30 pm</span></strong><b><br>
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<strong><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">We will take a virtual whalewatch with Jon Brink. We'll learn about the jet-powered boat,
</span></strong></b><em><b><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Whale Watcher</span></b></em><strong><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""> and explore the ecology of Stellwagen Bank National Marine Sanctuary. Then we'll meet some of the
whale species we encounter and have a whale of a time doing it! </span></strong><b><br>
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</b><strong><span style="font-size:17.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:blue">The Snake Whisperer - Live!</span></strong><b><br>
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</b><b><img width="288" height="230" id="Picture_x0020_3" src="cid:image003.jpg@01CE09FB.AFD95420" alt="Milk Snake.jpg"></b><o:p></o:p></p>
<p align="center" style="text-align:center"><strong><span style="font-size:14.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:blue">Friday, February 22nd, 1 pm - 2:30 pm</span></strong><o:p></o:p></p>
<p align="center" style="text-align:center"><strong><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">OK, this isn't Harry Potter, but Reptile expert Joe Martinez of the Harvard Museum of Comparative Zoology will visit Long Pasture to share several snakes for
people of all ages to hold, touch or just check out. He will bring physical examples of snake bones, skulls, teeth, and skin and present some natural history about these creatures so often misunderstood.</span></strong><o:p></o:p></p>
<p align="center" style="text-align:center"><strong><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:blue">Programs are $6 for members and $8 for non-members</span></strong><b><br>
<strong><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:blue">$4 and $6 for kids!</span></strong><br>
<strong><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:blue">Call us at 508-362-7475</span></strong></b><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-size:7.5pt">Jodie Limon Montoya</span></i><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Education Coordinator</span></i><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Ashumet, Long Pasture, and Skunknett River Wildlife Sanctuaries</span></i><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">345 Bone Hill Rd.</span></i><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">P.O. Box 235</span></i><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Cummaquid, MA 02637</span></i><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Tel: 508-362-7475</span></i><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">E-mail
</span></i><a href="mailto:jmontoya@massaudubon.org"><i><span style="font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:blue">jmontoya@massaudubon.org</span></i></a><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">---------------------------------------------------------</span></i><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Join Mass Audubon today online at
</span></i><span style="font-size:10.0pt"><a href="http://www.massaudubon.org/"><i><span style="font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:blue">www.massaudubon.org</span></i></a></span><i><span style="font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">
and help Protect the Nature of</span></i><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">
</span><i><span style="font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Massachusetts</span></i><i><span style="font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><i><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Long Pasture Wildlife Sanctuary is located on the north side of Rt 6a in Barnstable. Trails are open daily
dawn to dusk. Sanctuary admission is free for members; $4 adults, $3 children for non-members. Call (508) 362-7475 for information.</span></i><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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