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Sunday, January 29th 2012
1:00 PM
Animals in Winter with Mary Beers, a T3C program for families
www.300committee.org
The winter woods abound with signs of animals. Many mammals on Cape Cod do not hibernate for the winter. They are for the most part nocturnal so we know of their existence and activity only by the signs left behind. Mice scurry across paths, zipping out of and into snowy tunnels. Squirrels dig for nut and acorn caches, leaving behind the remnants of a meal. Raccoons amble along paths and then lumber up to the tree tops for a daytime snooze on top of an old bird or squirrel nest. Learn common animal tracks and signs through a hands-on explore indoors and a short outdoor explore with Mary Beers, Director of Education for the Thornton Burgess Society. Mary has been a Teacher/Naturalist for over 25 years. She has completed a course on Animal Tracking and Sign with renowned tracker and author, Paul Rezendes. There is no charge for this program, and everyone is welcome. There will be a second presentation at 2:30. For additional information call 508-540-0876.
Sunday, January 29th 2012
2:30 PM
Animals in Winter with Mary Beers, a T3C program for families
www.300committee.org
The winter woods abound with signs of animals. Many mammals on Cape Cod do not hibernate for the winter. They are for the most part nocturnal so we know of their existence and activity only by the signs left behind. Mice scurry across paths, zipping out of and into snowy tunnels. Squirrels dig for nut and acorn caches, leaving behind the remnants of a meal. Raccoons amble along paths and then lumber up to the tree tops for a daytime snooze on top of an old bird or squirrel nest. Learn common animal tracks and signs through a hands-on explore indoors and a short outdoor explore with Mary Beers, Director of Education for the Thornton Burgess Society. Mary has been a Teacher/Naturalist for over 25 years. She has completed a course on Animal Tracking and Sign with renowned tracker and author, Paul Rezendes. There is no charge for this program, and everyone is welcome. There will also be a presentation at 1:00. For additional information call 508-540-0876.
Thursday, March 15th 2012
7:00 PM
Kestrels and Cranberries with Joey Mason, a T3C program
www.300committee.org
Joanne ‘Joey’ Mason will share her extensive research and experiences with American Kestrels in southeastern Massachusetts during the past 23 years. She will describe how she monitors her nest boxes and what she has found in them through the years, including things which were not kestrels. These small falcons are in a rapid population decline, and Joey will provide insight and speculation on why this may be happening, along with evidence about what these raptors eat and why they often prefer to nest in cranberry bog habitat. Her presentation will not include a Kestrel, but a live male Merlin, another falcon of similar size. (If her 15 year old male Kestrel is still alive, he will certainly come to the talk. There are no guarantees with live animals.) In the early 1980s Joey got hooked on watching birds of prey during fall migration after numerous visits to Hawk Mountain Sanctuary in Pennsylvania. In 1985 she learned how to band hawks in Cape May, NJ, where she continues to band raptors for the Cape May Raptor Banding Project in the fall. Joey learned much about falcon behavior while working on the Peregrine Recovery Team for the Colorado Division of Wildlife during the summers of 1987 and 1988. With the help of Mike Maurer in 1989 she initiated a nest box project for American Kestrels in southeastern Massachusetts on cranberry grower-owned properties. In 2000, she spearheaded the Raptor Retrofit Project to prevent osprey electrocutions on cranberry grower properties, along with being widely consulted about suitable placement of osprey nesting platforms. Her newest project is developing better management practices to protect raptors at landfills.
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