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Kudlinski. Along the way you’ll discover the sea and sand creatures whose lives revolve around the ebb and flow of the sea and the young boy who stops to investigate the wonders he finds at water’s edge<i><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>. (This self-guided outdoor activity was first created by </span></i><i><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>Kellogg-Hubbard Library and the Vermont Bicycle & Pedestrian Coalition.)</span></i><i><span style='font-size:10.0pt'> </span></i><i><span style='font-size:10.0pt'><o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:14.0pt'>How Does Your Garden Grow?<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><b>Tuesday, April 22 10:00AM -11:30AM<o:p></o:p></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><o:p> </o:p></b></p><p class=MsoNormal>Celebrate the earth and discover both living and non-living elements that help a garden to grow. We will play an active food chain game, discover critters in the compost and explore animal and plant adaptations with a Pollinator Pairs match-up activity. After a visit to the Reserve’s rain, vegetable and pollinator gardens you’ll have a chance to make a compostable pot and plant some seeds to take home.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:14.0pt'>Raptors Revealed<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><b>Wednesday April 23, 10:00AM-11:30AM<o:p></o:p></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><o:p> </o:p></b></p><p class=MsoNormal>Games and activities help us examine the lives of birds of prey and learn about specialized features that help them to hunt and find food. Learn where snowy owls and osprey go in different seasons and why vultures have bald heads. Use your CSI skills to examine an owl pellet to discover the bird’s last meal. We’ll spy on nests near the visitor center and discover where you can watch osprey inside their nests, as the eggs hatch and chicks learn to fly. <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><b> <o:p></o:p></b></p><p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Program is free and open to the public. Reasonable accommodations available upon request.<span style='color:black'> For more information, call (508) 457-0495. For park information <a href="http://www.mass.gov/dcr/parks/southeast/wbnr.htm">www.mass.gov/dcr/parks/southeast/wbnr.htm</a><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'>Spring 2014<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Nancy Church<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>School and Interpretive Programs Coordinator<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Waquoit Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>DCR<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>PO Box 3092<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Waquoit, MA 02635<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>508-457-0495 ext. 125<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><a href="mailto:nancy.church@state.ma.us"><span style='color:blue'>nancy.church@state.ma.us</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><a href="http://www.waquoitbayreserve.org/"><span style='color:blue'>www.waquoitbayreserve.org</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><i><span style='color:#17365D'>Did you know Waquoit Bay Reserve is:<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class=MsoNormal><i><span style='color:#17365D'>1. a Massachusetts Department of Conservation and Recreation State Park? <a href="http://www.mass.gov/dcr"><span style='color:blue'>http://www.mass.gov/dcr</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class=MsoNormal><i><span style='color:#17365D'>2. one of 28 NOAA Research Reserves around the nation? <a href="http://www.nerrs.noaa.gov"><span style='color:blue'>www.nerrs.noaa.gov</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class=MsoNormal><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><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>