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Virtual Adult Workshop: Salve Making
December 5th, 9:30AM-12PM via Zoom
Cost: $30/participant or $25 for Willow Bend members. Sign-up required: https://t.co/IdZnNnmcya

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While the gardens at Willow Bend Environmental Center were getting drenched by yesterday’s monsoon, this was happening below at the Willow Bend in Sinclair Wash. https://t.co/8Vkzfjmz6L

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Check out a few of absolutely stunning entries we received for the nature art comic activity! Thank you so much for sharing your wonderful work with us, and we hope you keep making nature comics! If you didn't get… https://t.co/8PJuMVuHP0

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#willowbendnatureart activities continue! This week, we will be making comics in our nature journals (or any sheet of paper will do). Part 1 is to brainstorm what your comic could be about. On Wednesday, we tackle… https://t.co/YL32iQvZXL

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Sinclair Wash is running. https://t.co/BysgIfuYZJ

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We are giving thanks for the first monsoon of the season! https://t.co/UciEWV6GVF

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Just posted a video https://t.co/RTSZf8Cci5

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Join Willow Bend Environmental Education Center and Creative Spirits for a fun virtual painting event! For $20, you will receive a log in code to join a Zoom meeting online which will be sent 24 hours prior to event… https://t.co/3PEO1FDi0e

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Join Willow Bend Environmental Education Center and Creative Spirits for a fun virtual painting event! For $20, you will receive a log in code to join a Zoom meeting online which will be sent 24 hours prior to event… https://t.co/HWdYPuDCSh

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Happy July! Did you know that @WillowBendCtr will be sharing our favorite #willowbendnatureart activities this month? Today we are making a nature journal, which is fun to make for all ages. We want to see your… https://t.co/128wBfr8H4

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Willow Bend Nature Challenge Observation of the Day: Check out this moth in larva (caterpillar) stage and it's elongated prolegs. Can you help ID this critter? So far, it has been IDed to be in the Notodontidae… https://t.co/CsoHjmR105

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Today's highlighted observation - another spider but what a beauty! This one has had a suggested ID of a gem-shaped orbweaver but it needs confirmation. Can you help?
We have just a few days left to enter our… https://t.co/yts9cDu7Mg

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Check out this recent inaturalistorg observation from Bug Camp, a Common Patterned Ant-mimic Ground Spider (Sergiolus montanus)! Myrmecotrophy is mimicry of ants by other organisms, and spiders are the most common… https://t.co/FtYGNjth8h

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Happy National Pollinator Week! We are starting to see patches of blooming Showy Milkweed (Asclepias speciosa) around town. The monarch butterfly is dependent on milkweed plants because monarch caterpillars only eat… https://t.co/BI8L4twBjL

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Today's observation of the day is the Lesser Goldfinch. This one here is seen eating nyjer seed from a hanging feeder. Finches can be acrobatic feeders - clinging directly onto the feeder while plucking seeds out.… https://t.co/izlLeAgpqv

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Today's observation is a Black-headed Grosbeak. These are migratory birds so we only see them around Coconino County during the summer. From the same family as a cardinal, and with a song similar in sound to a… https://t.co/y864cWVmtt

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An update on our about to bloom agave plant! This is right outside the main entrance of @WillowBendCtr. Have you seen it in person yet? https://t.co/EbF0EwEJBq

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How adorable is this Rock Squirrel (Otospermophilus variegatus)? True to their name, these ground squirrels prefer a rocky habitat. Rock squirrels will rarely climb a tree, and make burrows instead of nests (unlike… https://t.co/YknKvmcn8L

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Just posted a photo https://t.co/euNvkSbZD4

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Just posted a photo https://t.co/dEZMi7HuCd