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<div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div><!--StartFragment--> <div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:Palatino; color:black"><b>4TH OF JULY COUNTS ON CAPE COD<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>2014</b></span><span style="font-size:14.0pt; font-family:Palatino;color:black"><b><o:p></o:p></b></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:Palatino; color:black"><b> <o:p></o:p></b></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:Palatino; color:black"><b> <o:p></o:p></b></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:Palatino; color:black"><b>TRURO. July 12, 2014, Saturday, (July 14, Monday, rain date) . 9:00 am. Truro.<o:p></o:p></b></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:Palatino; color:black"><b>Tor Hansen, leader, 508-648-1515, Alison Robb, co-leader, 508-564-4331, </b></span><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:Palatino; color:#3300FF"><b><u><a href="mailto:nature@cape.com">nature@cape.com</a></u></b></span><span style="font-size:14.0pt; font-family:Palatino;color:black"><b> <o:p></o:p></b></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:Palatino; color:black"><b>Please register ahead of time if possible. But come if you can anyway.<o:p></o:p></b></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:Palatino; color:black"><b>Directions: North Truro. Rte 6, Highland Light exit. Go east on Highland Rd. Meet at the first parking lot for Highland Light.<o:p></o:p></b></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:Palatino; color:black"><b> <o:p></o:p></b></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:Palatino; color:black"><b> <o:p></o:p></b></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:Palatino; color:black"><b>FALMOUTH. July 19, Saturday, 2014, (Monday July 21, rain date.) 10:00 am. Falmouth. Alison Robb leader. 508-564-4331. </b></span><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:Palatino;color:#3300FF"><b><u><a href="mailto:nature@cape.com">nature@cape.com</a></u></b></span><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:Palatino;color:black"><b>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Tor Hansen, co-leader. 508-648-1515. Please register ahead of time if possible. <o:p></o:p></b></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:Palatino; color:black"><b>Directions Crane WMA, Rte. 151, Falmouth. Turn north between the baseball field andwaht was<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>the Nickelodeon theater, across from Ranch Rd.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Go to the gate, park on the right.<o:p></o:p></b></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:Palatino; color:black"><b> <o:p></o:p></b></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:Palatino; color:black"><b> <o:p></o:p></b></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:Palatino; color:black"><b>BREWSTER. July 26, 2014, Saturday, (July 27, Sunday, rain date). 9:00 am. Brewster for the Cape Cod Museum of Natural History.<o:p></o:p></b></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:Palatino; color:black"><b>Joe Dwelly, leader; Alison Robb, co-leader; Please register with Alison Robb, 508-564-4331 or </b></span><span style="font-size:14.0pt; font-family:Palatino;color:#3300FF"><b><u><a href="mailto:nature@cape.com">nature@cape.com</a></u></b></span><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:Palatino;color:black"><b>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Joe Dwelly: 508-398-5967; <u> <a href="mailto:jdwelly@gis.net">jdwelly@gis.net</a></u> <o:p></o:p></b></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:Palatino; color:black"><b>Directions: Take Exit 9B off Rte 6 and follow Rte 134 North to Rte 6A, then turn east and follow 6A to The Museum, on the left at <o:p></o:p></b></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:Palatino; color:black"><b>869 Rte. 6A, Brewster.<o:p></o:p></b></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:Palatino; color:black"><b> <o:p></o:p></b></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:Palatino; color:black"><b> <o:p></o:p></b></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:Palatino; color:black"><b>BARNSTABLE. July 26, Saturday, 2014, 9:00 am. Barnstable, for the MassAudubon Long Pasture Wildlife Sanctuary.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Leader<o:p></o:p></b></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:Palatino; color:black"><b>Ian Ives.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Please register if possible. </b></span><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family: Palatino;color:#3300FF"><b><u><a href="mailto:iives@audubon.org">iives@audubon.org</a></u></b></span><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:Palatino;color:black"><b> <o:p></o:p></b></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:Palatino; color:black"><b>Directions: From Rte. 6, Cape Cod, take exit 7 north toward Yarmouth Port, going one mile north on Willow Street, Go left 1 mile west on 6A, and right on Bone Hill Rd. Go 1/3 mile north on Bone Hill Rd (until you can see the ocean) then take your next left to the Audubon Long Pasture headquarters. <o:p></o:p></b></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:Palatino; color:black"><b> <o:p></o:p></b></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:Palatino; color:black"><b> <o:p></o:p></b></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:Palatino; color:black"><b><i>All information at <u>www.nature.my.cape.com</u><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>click on Calendar of Events.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>If 2014 Schedule is not up,<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>the dates are one day earlier than 2013.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Crane is changed.</i></b></span></div> <!--EndFragment--> </div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div><br></div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div><!--StartFragment--> <div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:16.0pt"><b>Annual Butterfly Count on Cape Cod<o:p></o:p></b></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:16.0pt"><b>“4<sup>th</sup> of July Butterfly Count”<br style="mso-special-character:line-break"> <br style="mso-special-character:line-break"> <span style="font-variant:small-caps"><o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt">Since 1975, the North American Butterfly Association (NABA) has organized an annual butterfly count held in the United States, and expanded to include Canada and Mexico as well.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Each count area is a circle 15 miles in diameter and the count is a one-day census of all butterflies observed within that circle. The count promotes interest in butterflies, and provides results useful to scientists who are monitoring butterfly populations and habitats.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>An official report is available in the spring of the following year.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>NABA’s count is a great example of citizen science. Everyone is encouraged to participate, either as a member of the group that visits sites selected by the count leader, or as an observer in their own garden.<o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt">Since 1999 a NABA “Fourth of July Butterfly Count" has been organized on Cape Cod, held on four weekends during the month of July across the Cape.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>The sites visited are the same sites on comparable dates visited in past years, so that a comparison can be made.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>There are many reasons for population changes—weather, insecticide use, and habitat decrease or increase. Interesting observations from the Cape counts include: monarch numbers dwindling, representative of their declining numbers everywhere in eastern North America; Silver-bordered Fritillaries are becoming scarce in Evans Field in Provincetown due to flooding of that field, Appalachian Brown, which were abundant in the cranberry bogs there have disappeared.<o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt"> <o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt">Bog Copper has increased in numbers in the small bogs at Hatches Harbor, Provincelands; Cloudless Sulphur has visited the Cape from the south in recent years; and other species which have been increasing are those with southerly ranges, including Zabulon Skipper, Variegated Fritillary, Common Buckeye, and Fiery Skipper. Baltimore Checkerspot has increased in the mid- and lower Cape.<o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt">In 2012<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>and 2013 Giant Swallowtails visited the Cape and may be bredding here.<o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt">Knowledgeable people to assist with these Cape counts are needed. Beginners, those with less experience who want to experience butterfly counts, are also welcome. Contact Alison Robb to sign up.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt"><b> <o:p></o:p></b></span></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops:279.0pt"><span style="font-size:14.0pt"><b>PRESENTER:</b></span><span style="font-size:14.0pt"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Alison Robb, Nature’s Circle<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops:279.0pt"><span style="font-size:14.0pt"> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops:279.0pt"><span style="font-size:14.0pt">Contact:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Alison Robb<span style="mso-tab-count:1"> </span><span style="mso-tab-count:1"> </span>508-564-4331<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops:279.0pt"><span style="font-size:14.0pt"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Nature’s Circle<span style="mso-tab-count:1"> </span><span style="mso-tab-count:1"> </span><a href="mailto:nature@cape.com">nature@cape.com</a><o:p></o:p></span></p> <div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>PO Box 186<span style="mso-tab-count:1"> </span><span style="mso-tab-count:1"> </span><span style="mso-tab-count:1"> </span><span style="mso-tab-count:1"> </span><a href="http://nature.my.cape.com">http://nature.my.cape.com</a><o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Woods Hole, MA 02543<span style="mso-tab-count:1"> </span><span style="mso-tab-count:1"> </span><span style="mso-tab-count:1"> </span><span style="mso-tab-count:1"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div> <!--EndFragment--> </div></body></html>