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Center for Wildlife and several partners have formed Gateway to Maine: Outside! FMI, click on the logo and see CFW's offerings below.

Upcoming Public Events & Programs

Seacoast Water Garden Club 2010 Tour
Various locations in southern Maine and coastal NH
Sundays June 20-August 15 - Rain or Shine
On eight Sunday afternoons throughout the summer, different club members will open their ponds for public
viewing. They include all types of water gardens from large ponds to small urban back yard settings.
Whether you have a pond or are interested in building one, we invite you to take a look at the water gardens we
have on display this summer. We have ponds on the tour to suit every taste. Come to get ideas and answers to
your questions, or just come for the fun of it! Bring your friends and enjoy a unique experience! Tours will be held rain or shine. Admission is $2.00 per garden. Proceeds to benefit Center for Wildlife.

Eyes like a hawk
Outdoor Adventure - CFW - York
October 2 - 9-11am - Rain date October 3
Best bring your binos for this one. Meet the educators and wild bird ambassadors of the Center for Wildlife at the top of Mt.A for a live demonstration of migrating raptors. Mt. A flyway viewing follows. Reservations required.

CFW In the Media

Great Horned Owl recovers, released in the woods of Brentwood
Seacoast Online, July 16, 2010
A little more than two months after hunters rescued an injured great horned owl in Exeter, the bird was determined to be fully recovered and was set free in the area where he was found. It was on May 5 when the Center for Wildlife in Cape Neddick, Maine, received word about a great horned owl in distress, and within a few hours, the emaciated raptor was in good hands, literally, at the Wildlife Center.

Watch Out for the Turtles
WCSH6.com 6/15/2010
If you are traveling in some parts of southern Maine you might notice some unusual road signs. The Maine Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife and the Nature Conservancy are posting road signs warning drivers of endangered turtle road crossing locations. The road crossings are located in Wells, South Berwick and York. Spotted and Blanding's turtles often travel to their nesting areas during this times of year. The department says if these signs can even help save a few of these turtles from becoming roadkill then it was worth it.

Rescue ME: The Center for Wildlife in Cape Neddick
The Portland Press Herald, 5/2/2010
It might have been the wind or some dust that put a tear on Tom Porter's cheek, but after he released the barred owl he had found injured five months earlier, he was visibly moved. He was standing at the First Parish Cemetery in York after Laura Dehler of the Center for Wildlife had passed him the rehabilitated barred owl to release back into the wild.

York fourth-graders support Center for Wildlife
news@seacoastonline.com, 1/8/10
Holiday donations were literally for the birds last year, as four fourth-grade classes at Coastal Ridge Elementary School worked together to collect donations for the Center for Wildlife in Cape Neddick.

Interpreter’s Notes – The Center for Wildlife, Cape Neddick, Maine
Halibut Point State Park, Rockport, MA website, 9/21/09
Decked out in t-shirts as blue as the Maine sky over Chase’s Pond that afternoon, staff and volunteers bustled around us and up ahead as we made our way from the street onto the grounds. All the excitement was over the 2009 “Wild About Our Community” event at the Center for Wildlife, Cape Neddick, Maine.

A winter safe haven for all the birds and beasts in York
Foster's Daily Democrat, 2/27/09
Even in the dead of winter the Center for Wildlife continues to create a safe haven for animals whether they be an injured peregrine falcon or even a confiscated baby American alligator.

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