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<p><strong><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Dear Friends,</span></strong><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><strong><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">We invite you to meet the goats and cows of Circle Back Farm with Don and Tanya and learn what sustainability really means on a farm. Also join us as we seek whirling woodcocks and Hike Sandy Neck for
signs of spring!</span></strong><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><strong><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#52C738">This Week:</span></strong><br>
<strong><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#52C738">Birding in Sandwich - Meet at Hemispheres public lot Thursday at 8:30 am</span></strong><br>
<strong><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#52C738">Horseshoe Crab Voyeurs - Thursday at Long Pasture (5:30 pm training and 7pm for presentation)</span></strong><o:p></o:p></p>
<p align="center" style="text-align:center"><strong><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:blue">Are You Kidding?</span></strong><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:blue"><br>
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</b><b><img width="330" height="245" id="Picture_x0020_1" src="cid:image001.jpg@01CE351A.0BF5E810" alt="Goats by Don Chapin.JPG"></b><o:p></o:p></p>
<p align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:blue"><a href="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/ed/Nigerian_Dwarf_Goat_01.jpg"><strong><span style="font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:blue;text-decoration:none"> </span></strong></a><strong><span style="font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"">Tuesday,
April 16<sup>th</sup>, 1 pm – 2:30 pm</span></strong></span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p align="center" style="text-align:center"><strong><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Take a Nigerian Dwarf Goat for a hike and meet goats who will be “kidding” this spring. Discover goat life cycles, social lives and, of course, personalities!</span></strong><b><br>
</b><em><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">$6 for children, $8 for adults ($4 and $6 for members)</span></em><o:p></o:p></p>
<p align="center" style="text-align:center"><strong><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:blue">Milk Magic: Meet The Cow Girls!</span></strong><o:p></o:p></p>
<p align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><img border="0" width="253" height="190" id="Picture_x0020_2" src="cid:image002.jpg@01CE351A.0BF5E810" alt="Cow at Lp"><br>
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<strong><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""> </span></strong></b><strong><span style="font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:blue">Thursday, April 18<sup>th</sup>, 1pm – 2 pm</span></strong><strong><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""> </span></strong><o:p></o:p></p>
<p align="center" style="text-align:center"><strong><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""> Discover the udderly amazing way cows turn grasses into milk. Meet Mabel and Olive, our resident Bovines and learn the answer to that burning question, “What
is a cow pie really?”</span></strong><i><br>
<em><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">$6 for children, $8 for adults ($4 and $6 for members)</span></em></i><o:p></o:p></p>
<p align="center" style="text-align:center"><strong><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:blue">Woodcock Ballet</span></strong>
<span style="font-size:14.0pt;color:blue">-</span><strong><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:blue"> Two Performances</span></strong><span style="font-size:14.0pt;color:blue">!<br>
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<img border="0" width="237" height="160" id="Picture_x0020_3" src="cid:image003.jpg@01CE351A.0BF5E810" alt="woodcock"></span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p align="center" style="text-align:center"><strong><span style="font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:blue">Tuesday, April 16<sup>th</sup> at 6:45 pm at Long Pasture</span></strong><b><br>
</b><strong><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:blue">345 Bone Hill Rd, Cummaquid</span></strong><b><br>
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</b><strong><span style="font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:blue">Thursday, April 18<sup>th</sup> at 6:45 pm at Barnstable Great Marsh Sanctuary</span></strong><b><br>
</b><strong><span style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:blue">2444 Route 6A (Main Street), Barnstable</span></strong><b><br>
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<strong><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Look! It's a bird! It's a plane! Hey wait, it is a bird. Woodcocks take center stage at sunset and twirl like ballerinas - only a little awkwardly.</span></strong></b><i><br>
<em><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">$4 for members, $6 for non-members</span></em><strong><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">.</span></strong></i><o:p></o:p></p>
<p align="center" style="text-align:center"><strong><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:blue">Celebrate Spring on Sandy Neck</span></strong><o:p></o:p></p>
<p align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><img border="0" width="226" height="140" id="Picture_x0020_4" src="cid:image004.jpg@01CE351A.0BF5E810" alt="Nesting Ospreys"><strong><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""> </span></strong></b><o:p></o:p></p>
<p align="center" style="text-align:center"><strong><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""> </span></strong><strong><span style="font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:blue">Wednesday, April 17<sup>th</sup>, 10 am – 12 pm </span></strong><o:p></o:p></p>
<p align="center" style="text-align:center"><strong><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Sandy Neck awakens in April as Ospreys return to rebuild their bulky stick nests atop poles. Endangered Piping Plovers scour the vast beach for the ideal spot
to scratch their simple nests. Rare Spadefoot Toads rush to breed in ephemeral pools in the dunes which will soon dry and disappear. Celebrate these signs of spring with Ian Ives, Director of Long Pasture Wildlife Sanctuary, and Nina Coleman, Manager at Sandy
Neck, as your guides through the spectacular landscape of Sandy Neck.</span></strong><o:p></o:p></p>
<p align="center" style="text-align:center"><em><b><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Meet at the Sandy Neck Gatehouse</span></b></em><b><i><br>
<em><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">For more information call 508-362-7475
</span></em></i></b><i><br>
<em><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">$6 for children, $8 for adults ($4 and $6 for members)</span></em></i><br>
Co-sponsored by the Barnstable Land Trust<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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