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DuPont Nature Center announces winter hours for 2009-2010
Beginning Dec. 1 and continuing through March 1, 2010, the center will be open from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Wednesdays and Saturdays.
Perched on the edge of Mispillion Harbor at the intersection of the mouths of the Mispillion River and Cedar Creek, the center offers a variety of interactive exhibits, school tours and educational programs. In the spring, its location offers wildlife watchers a front-row seat for the spring spectacle of spawning horseshoe crabs and migrating shorebirds including the red knot that depend on horseshoe crab eggs to help fuel their 9,000-mile journey.
Several special programs are on the calendar this winter:
- What’s the Reason They’re Not Freezin’? (hibernation and migration) – 11 a.m. to noon, Saturday, Jan. 23, 2010
- Shorebird Identification 101 – 7 to 8:30 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 24
- What Lives in a Shell? – 11 a.m. to noon, Saturday, March 6
- Barbels, Scutes and Caviar: Learn About the Atlantic Sturgeon – 7 to 8:30 p.m. Wednesday, March 10
Programs are offered free of charge with no preregistration required.
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