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Barred Owl

Replay: What a Hoot!

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Join us on our Facebook page Mondays through Fridays at 10 a.m. for a live video with Great Parks staff. This video is such a hoot! We’re at Farbach-Werner Nature Preserve with Nature Interpreter Stephanie meeting a few owl animal ambassadors.

A transverse-banded flower fly lands on a yellow flower.

Replay: Stained Glass Craft

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Join us on our Facebook page Mondays through Fridays at 10 a.m. for a live video with Great Parks staff. Nature Interpreter Sarah is showing off her plant knowledge and skills with a fun craft that you can make too!

Blazing star

Replay: Prairie Plants & Pollinators

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Join us on our Facebook page Mondays through Fridays at 10 a.m. for a live video with Great Parks staff. We’re celebrating pollinators for National Pollinators Week. Nature Interpreter Julie is sharing all about how prairie plants are homes for pollinators. If you can’t make it to Farbach-Werner Nature Preserve, see what plants are in bloom now in this video.

Replay: Flower Dissection

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Join us on our Facebook page Mondays through Fridays at 10 a.m. for a live video with Great Parks staff. We’re celebrating pollinators for National Pollinators Week. Director of Education & Events Amy shows a new way to look at flowers – by dissecting them! Learn more all about the parts of flowers with us in this video.

Replay: Prairie Life

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Join us on our Facebook page Mondays through Fridays at 10 a.m. for a live video with Great Parks staff. We’re celebrating pollinators for National Pollinators Week. We’re exploring the prairie at Kroger Hills with Nature Interpreter Sarah today! Tune in as Sarah searches for the bugs, birds and plants that call this nature preserve home.

Eastern Tiger Swallowtail

Replay: Butterfly Fashion Show

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Join us on our Facebook page Mondays through Fridays at 10 a.m. for a live video with Great Parks staff. We’re celebrating pollinators for National Pollinators Week. Regional Education Manager Julie has found an interesting gaggle of butterflies at Woodland Mound and tells us more about what makes each butterfly species unique.

A monarch butterfly enjoys the nectar of common milkweed.

Replay: Pollinator Garden Tour

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Join us on our Facebook page Mondays through Fridays at 10 a.m. for a live video with Great Parks staff. We’re celebrating pollinators for National Pollinators Week. Go on a tour of the butterfly garden at Glenwood Gardens with Highfield Discovery Garden Manger Doug and Nature Interpreter Lisa and learn more about these important plants.

Replay: The G.O.A.T.

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Join us on our Facebook page Mondays through Fridays at 10 a.m. for a live video with Great Parks staff. We’re back at Parky’s Farm with the G.O.A.T. of videos – meeting the goats and farm animals that live here, of course!