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    <img src="http://green.indy.com/photos/314632/default.jpg" tn="http://green.indy.com/photos/314632/thumbnail.jpg" id="photo314632" caption="Bill Berner, Indianapolis, left, checks out the exhibit room in Eagle Creek Park's new Ornithology Center, where he was being trained as a docent on Friday, September 25, 2009. This exhibit recreates a marsh scene with taxidermied birds on the surface above a simulated underwater view. (Charlie Nye / The Star)." link="/photos/314632/galleries/7500" target="_self"/>
    <img src="http://green.indy.com/photos/314631/default.jpg" tn="http://green.indy.com/photos/314631/thumbnail.jpg" id="photo314631" caption="Docents for the new Eagle Creek Park Ornithology Center take a tour of the exhibit room during a tour of the center, converted from the old Nature Center, on Friday, September 25, 2009. (Charlie Nye / The Star)." link="/photos/314631/galleries/7500" target="_self"/>
    <img src="http://green.indy.com/photos/314630/default.jpg" tn="http://green.indy.com/photos/314630/thumbnail.jpg" id="photo314630" caption="Dorothy Finch grabs a pair of binoculars in Eagle Creek Park's new Ornithology Center to view goldfinches gathering around a feeder on Friday, September 25, 2009. There are two viewing areas within the center, the Wild Birds Unlimited Bird Observation Room, shown here, looking out at numerous feeders, and a room with large west-facing windows overlooking the bird sanctuary on the reservoir, where a variety of birds can be spotted on the water and resting in trees. (Charlie Nye / The Star)." link="/photos/314630/galleries/7500" target="_self"/>
    <img src="http://green.indy.com/photos/314629/default.jpg" tn="http://green.indy.com/photos/314629/thumbnail.jpg" id="photo314629" caption="Eagle Creek Park's new Ornithology Center has several interactive kiosks that visitors can use to learn more about birds in the park. A light form in the shape of a bird moves across this map, and when it approaches one of the bird trails in the park, the trail is illuminated,center. Photographed on Friday, September 25, 2009, this portion of the display shows I-65intersecting with W. 71st St. and the reservoir's bird sanctuary at the bottom. (Charlie Nye / The Star)." link="/photos/314629/galleries/7500" target="_self"/>
    <img src="http://green.indy.com/photos/314627/default.jpg" tn="http://green.indy.com/photos/314627/thumbnail.jpg" id="photo314627" caption="Eagle Creek Park's new Ornithology Center provides visitors with realistic wildlife displays. This taxidermied Barred Owl was positioned sitting in a tree in the exhibit room on Friday, September 25, 2009. Leaves, from Hobby Lobby, were glued one-by-one by hand onto the trees' branches. (Charlie Nye / The Star)." link="/photos/314627/galleries/7500" target="_self"/>
    <img src="http://green.indy.com/photos/314625/default.jpg" tn="http://green.indy.com/photos/314625/thumbnail.jpg" id="photo314625" caption="Kevin Carlsen, left, trains docents for Eagle Creek Park's new Ornithology Center on the use of several interactive kiosks on Friday, September 25, 2009. He shows how visitors can call up various displays to learn more about birds, specifically ones that can be found in the park. (Charlie Nye / The Star)." link="/photos/314625/galleries/7500" target="_self"/>
    <img src="http://green.indy.com/photos/314623/default.jpg" tn="http://green.indy.com/photos/314623/thumbnail.jpg" id="photo314623" caption="Joyce Berner, Indianapolis, checks out the Wild Birds Unlimited Bird Observation Room in Eagle Creek Park's new Ornithology Center, which she was being trained as a docent on Friday, September 25, 2009. There are two viewing areas within the center, this observation room and another one with large west-facing windows overlooking the bird sanctuary on the reservoir, where a variety of birds can be spotted on the water and resting in trees. (Charlie Nye / The Star)." link="/photos/314623/galleries/7500" target="_self"/>
    <img src="http://green.indy.com/photos/314621/default.jpg" tn="http://green.indy.com/photos/314621/thumbnail.jpg" id="photo314621" caption="Eagle Creek Park's new Ornithology Center has several interactive kiosks that visitors can use to learn more about the park's wildlife. This one that promises to be a big hit with children bring up images of the park's &amp;quot;night critters,&amp;quot; accompanied by sounds they make. Another program lets the user display profiles of various birds, which make bird calls as they bounce up and down to a rhythmic beat. Photographed on Friday, September 25, 2009.  (Charlie Nye / The Star)." link="/photos/314621/galleries/7500" target="_self"/>
    <img src="http://green.indy.com/photos/314619/default.jpg" tn="http://green.indy.com/photos/314619/thumbnail.jpg" id="photo314619" caption="A bird identification book and pair of binoculars in the Wild Birds Unlimited Bird Observation Room in Eagle Creek Park's new Ornithology Center sit next to a large window overlooking bird feeders on Friday, September 25, 2009. There are two viewing areas within the center, this observation room and another one with large west-facing windows overlooking the bird sanctuary on the reservoir, where a variety of birds can be spotted on the water and resting in trees. (Charlie Nye / The Star)." link="/photos/314619/galleries/7500" target="_self"/>
    <img src="http://green.indy.com/photos/314618/default.jpg" tn="http://green.indy.com/photos/314618/thumbnail.jpg" id="photo314618" caption="Two goldfinches eat from a feeder at Eagle Creek Park's new Ornithology Center on Friday, September 25, 2009. When the birds are in their winter plumage phase, their feathers are duller in color, making it harder to tell the male from the female. There are two viewing areas within the center, the Wild Birds Unlimited Bird Observation Room, which looks out at numerous feeders, and a room with large west-facing windows overlooking the bird sanctuary on the reservoir, where a variety of birds can be spotted on the water and resting in trees. (Charlie Nye / The Star)." link="/photos/314618/galleries/7500" target="_self"/>
    <img src="http://green.indy.com/photos/314617/default.jpg" tn="http://green.indy.com/photos/314617/thumbnail.jpg" id="photo314617" caption="Eagle Creek Park's new Ornithology Center has several interactive kiosks that visitors can use to learn more about birds, especially ones that can be observed throughout the park. Photographed on Friday, September 25, 2009. Some displays also point out the park's trails where birds can be spotted. (Charlie Nye / The Star)." link="/photos/314617/galleries/7500" target="_self"/>
    <img src="http://green.indy.com/photos/314616/default.jpg" tn="http://green.indy.com/photos/314616/thumbnail.jpg" id="photo314616" caption="Eagle Creek Park's new Ornithology Center provides visitors with realistic wildlife displays with wall murals behind them. This taxidermied Barn Owl sits on a post in the exhibit room on Friday, September 25, 2009.  (Charlie Nye / The Star)." link="/photos/314616/galleries/7500" target="_self"/>
    <img src="http://green.indy.com/photos/314615/default.jpg" tn="http://green.indy.com/photos/314615/thumbnail.jpg" id="photo314615" caption="Eagle Creek Park's new Ornithology Center provides visitors realistic wildlife settings for their displays, such as this taxidermied killdeer in a wetlands exhibit. The room has numerous reader rails with information about the birds on exhibit, which came from Illinois. " link="/photos/314615/galleries/7500" target="_self"/>
    <img src="http://green.indy.com/photos/314614/default.jpg" tn="http://green.indy.com/photos/314614/thumbnail.jpg" id="photo314614" caption="Docents being trained for Eagle Creek Park's new Ornithology Center look out the center's large west-facing windows overlooking the reservoir's Bird Sanctuary, a portion of water where a variety of birds can be spotted on the water and resting in trees, on Friday, September 25, 2009. A microphone in a pine tree pipe's sound into the observation room. Shown left to right are Steve Wicker, Ned Lewis and Bruce Wilson, all Indianapolis. (Charlie Nye / The Star)." link="/photos/314614/galleries/7500" target="_self"/>
    <img src="http://green.indy.com/photos/314613/default.jpg" tn="http://green.indy.com/photos/314613/thumbnail.jpg" id="photo314613" caption="A cardinal eats from a feeder at Eagle Creek Park's new Ornithology Center on Friday, September 25, 2009. There are two viewing areas within the center, the Wild Birds Unlimited Bird Observation Room, which looks out at numerous feeders, and a room with large west-facing windows overlooking the bird sanctuary on the reservoir, where a variety of birds can be spotted on the water and resting in trees. (Charlie Nye / The Star)." link="/photos/314613/galleries/7500" target="_self"/>
    <img src="http://green.indy.com/photos/314612/default.jpg" tn="http://green.indy.com/photos/314612/thumbnail.jpg" id="photo314612" caption="A flock of cormorants rest in a tree alongside Eagle Creek Park's Bird Sanctuary on the reservoir, where no fishing boats are allowed, as viewed from the park's new Ornithology Center on Friday, September 25, 2009. The center's large west-facing windows overlook this portion of water where a variety of birds can be spotted on the water and resting in trees. (Charlie Nye / The Star)." link="/photos/314612/galleries/7500" target="_self"/>
    <img src="http://green.indy.com/photos/314609/default.jpg" tn="http://green.indy.com/photos/314609/thumbnail.jpg" id="photo314609" caption="A flock of Canada Geese float on Eagle Creek Park's Bird Sanctuary on the reservoir, where no fishing boats are allowed, as viewed from the park's new Ornithology Center on Friday, September 25, 2009. The center's large west-facing windows overlook this portion of water where a variety of birds can be spotted on the water and resting in trees. (Charlie Nye / The Star)." link="/photos/314609/galleries/7500" target="_self"/>
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