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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><u><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Cambria","serif"">Upcoming Programs at Felix Neck-May 2015<o:p></o:p></span></u></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:6.0pt;background:white"><b><span lang="EN" style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"Cambria","serif"">Volunteer Day at Felix Neck<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<h3 style="background:white"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Cambria","serif";color:windowtext">Mark your calendar for Saturday, April 25, 2015 9:00am-12:00pm– Mass Audubon’s 9th Annual Statewide Volunteer Day. <o:p></o:p></span></h3>
<p style="background:white"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Cambria","serif";color:#333333">It’s not too early to think about spring! Plan now to participate in Mass Audubon’s Statewide Volunteer Day on Saturday, April 25, 2015. Enjoy getting
outdoors, re-connecting with nature, and helping one of our wildlife sanctuaries tackle their spring “to do” list. Come with your family, a group of friends, or by yourself to 100 Felix Neck Drive, Edgartown.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span><b><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Cambria","serif"">Butterfly Garden Blitz
</span></b><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Cambria","serif""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="Default" style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Cambria","serif"">Our butterfly garden needs to be prepared for the season. We need your help with planting, re-chipping the paths, rejuvenating the soil, and getting ready
for the return of the butterflies and hummingbirds. Please bring work gloves, wear work clothes, and bring whatever gardening tools you have available. The more volunteers the merrier.
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<p class="Default" style="text-indent:.5in"><b><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Cambria","serif"">Bittersweet Battle Royale
</span></b><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Cambria","serif""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="Default" style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Cambria","serif"">Felix Neck is battling back its invasives! Help us remove some bittersweet that plagues our Sanctuary. Please bring work gloves and wear work clothes. We
need all the help we can get with this project. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="Default" style="text-indent:.5in"><b><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Cambria","serif"">Spruce up our Nature Play Area
</span></b><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Cambria","serif""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="Default" style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Cambria","serif"">Get the Nature Play Area ready for summer. We will be doing a spring cleaning spruce up and adding woodchips to the site. This is an outdoor project, suitable
for all ages. Please bring work gloves and wear work clothes.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="Default" style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Cambria","serif"">After a morning of hands-on work we will provide a barbecue lunch for the volunteers to celebrate all that was accomplished.
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Cambria","serif"">So bring friends and family and get your hands dirty for a great cause!
<i>To sign up, visit </i><b><a href="http://www.massaudubon.org/workforwildlife">www.massaudubon.org/workforwildlife</a>.
</b><i>For more information, call </i><b>508.627.4850.</b></span><b><span lang="EN" style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"Cambria","serif""><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:6.0pt;background:white"><b><span lang="EN" style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"Cambria","serif"">Sustainable Book Club<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span lang="EN" style="font-family:"Cambria","serif";color:#333333">Wed, Apr 29, 2015 5:30 pm - 6:30 pm<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span lang="EN" style="font-family:"Cambria","serif";color:#333333">Vineyard Haven Public Library<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span lang="EN" style="font-family:"Cambria","serif";color:#333333">Adult program Free<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt;background:white"><span lang="EN" style="font-family:"Cambria","serif";color:#333333">Please join this island-wide book group, reading and discussing books that examine our relationship with nature. The group
is sponsored by Felix Neck Wildlife Sanctuary and all six island libraries. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span lang="EN" style="font-family:"Cambria","serif";color:#333333">Book: American Catch by Paul Greenberg<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="Default"><b><span lang="EN" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Cambria","serif";color:#66635E">Registration not required.</span></b><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Cambria","serif""><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<p class="Default"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Cambria","serif"">Kayak Quest
</span></b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Cambria","serif""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="Default"><b><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Cambria","serif"">Mondays-Fridays; May 1–September 25
</span></b><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Cambria","serif""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="Default"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Cambria","serif"">Members: $35/kayak; Nonmembers: $45/kayak**
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="Default"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Cambria","serif"">Enjoy Sengekontacket Pond at your own pace on this self-guided tour. Rhyming “quest” clues (think treasure hunt!) will help you uncover the story of the Pond’s people, places, and
wildlife. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Cambria","serif"">**Single & double kayaks available; call to reserve. Up to 2.5 hours; all boats must be returned by 3:30 pm. Age restrictions may apply, call for more information.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:6.0pt;background:white"><b><span lang="EN" style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"Cambria","serif"">Horseshoe Crab Survey Training<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span lang="EN" style="font-family:"Cambria","serif";color:#333333">Sat, May 02, 2015 9:00 am - 11:00 am Felix Neck Wildlife Sanctuary, Edgartown Adult Free<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span lang="EN" style="font-family:"Cambria","serif";color:#333333"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="Default"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Cambria","serif";color:#333333">Does being a sleuth intrigue you? Do you need a reason to walk the beach before the high season? Have you ever experienced the beauty of the beach late at
night? This very important project needs dozens of volunteers to look for spawning crabs or evidence that they were there nesting the previous night. If you have yet to participate in a beach survey, please consider joining in this year - you are needed! Pass
the word; invite friends.<br>
<br>
Surveys are conducted on days surrounding the New and Full Moons of May and June. Training will include time indoors and walking on the beach at the swash line. Please dress for the weather and wear water-resistant boots or shoes.</span><span style="font-family:"Cambria","serif""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="Default"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Cambria","serif"">Moonrise Kayak Tour*
</span></b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Cambria","serif""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="Default"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Cambria","serif"">Members: $35/person; Nonmembers: $45/person
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="Default"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Cambria","serif"">See Sengekontacket Pond in a new light—moonlight—as we celebrate the different full moons of summer. With a guide, kayak on the pond as the sun sets, stars twinkle, and the moon
rises. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="Default"><b><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Cambria","serif"">May 3:
</span></b><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Cambria","serif"">7–9 pm <b>
May 4: </b>7–9 pm<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="Default"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Cambria","serif"">FISH PRINTING
</span></b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Cambria","serif""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="Default"><b><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Cambria","serif"">Saturday, May 9
</span></b><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Cambria","serif""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="Default"><b><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Cambria","serif"">2–4 pm
</span></b><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Cambria","serif""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="Default"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Cambria","serif"">Members: $30; Nonmember: $35
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="Default"><b><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Cambria","serif"">Registration required.
</span></b><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Cambria","serif""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="Default"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Cambria","serif"">Islander Jeffrey Cahna is ‘making impressions, one fish at a time’. He uses the Japanese art and technique Gyotaku to make fish prints. This technique combines the accuracy of scientific
illustration with expressive composition of oriental art.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:6.0pt;background:white"><b><span lang="EN" style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"Cambria","serif"">Nursery School Naturalists<br>
</span></b><span lang="EN" style="font-family:"Cambria","serif";color:#333333">Thu, May 14, 2015 10:30 am - 11:30 am Thu, May 28, 2015 10:30am-11:30am</span><b><span lang="EN" style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"Cambria","serif""><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span lang="EN" style="font-family:"Cambria","serif";color:#333333">Felix Neck Wildlife Sanctuary, Edgartown<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span lang="EN" style="font-family:"Cambria","serif";color:#333333">Adult/Child (suitable for children 3 - 5 years with parent/friend)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span lang="EN" style="font-family:"Cambria","serif";color:#333333">Adult free, Child $6.00<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span lang="EN" style="font-family:"Cambria","serif";color:#333333">Adult free, Child $9.00<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><i><span lang="EN" style="font-family:"Cambria","serif";color:#333333">Nonmembers can join today during checkout and take immediate advantage of member prices.</span></i><span lang="EN" style="font-family:"Cambria","serif";color:#333333"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt;background:white"><span lang="EN" style="font-family:"Cambria","serif";color:#333333">Join us every other Thursday (April 2—June 11) while we look for signs of spring. Watch spring unfold at Felix Neck Wildlife
Sanctuary as we welcome the warmer weather through stories, crafts, walks, live animal presentations, and more!<br>
Pre-registration required. Call Felix Neck for more information.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="Default"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Cambria","serif"">Tracking Shorebirds
</span></b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Cambria","serif""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="Default"><b><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Cambria","serif"">Saturday, May 23
</span></b><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Cambria","serif""> from <b>9–10 am
</b>FREE <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Cambria","serif"">Oystercatchers, plovers, and terns, oh my! Walk the beach with our shorebird biologist to record field data, search for birds and nests, and identify bird and mammal tracks in
the sand. Meet at the State Beach access trail on the Oak Bluffs side </span><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Cambria","serif"">of Big Bridge.</span><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Cambria","serif""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Thank you!!<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Laura Hearn<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Development Assistant<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Felix Neck Wildlife Sanctuary<o:p></o:p></p>
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