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Join us for a Summer Solstice Celebration on Saturday, June 21!
Beginning at 4pm, we’ll have a (small) bonfire at the house across the street from the park, where we’ll provide fixin’s to roast s’mores over the fire! If you want, bring your own food to cook on the grill.
Festivities will wrap up at dusk.
Hope you can join us to celebrate summer!
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Pollinator Week, June 16-22, is an annual celebration organized by Pollinator Partnership to appreciate and support our many pollinators friends (bees, butterflies, birds, bats, beetles, and other small creatures).
To join the fun, Kirke Park is throwing a Pollinator Party on Saturday June 21, from 1pm to 4pm in the Secret Garden. We’ll have information on local bees, hand lenses for closer observation, and a Pollinator Scavenger Hunt for the younger citizen scientists buzzing around. We’ll also join Pollinator Partnership’s international iNaturalist Bioblitz (a biological survey that documents as many species as possible at a specific time and place) — which means we’ll observe and identify pollinators and post pictures of them visiting flowers in the garden to iNaturalist.
More information can be found on our Pollinator Week page.
The Pollinator Project Bioblitz project on iNaturalist is easy to join, and consists of taking pictures of pollinators and the flowers they are visiting and uploading them to iNaturalist to be included in the dataset. iNaturalist has lots of information about how to Get Started — including video tutorials and how to start a project of your own.
For more information visit the Pollinator Partnership website.
For information about how to join the Pollinator Week Bioblitz project, download Pollinator Parnership’s Bioblitz Toolkit (PDF) or visit iNaturalist.org.
We hope to see you at the June 21 Pollinator Party — and the Solstice Celebration!
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