Visitors arrive to the first annual EarthDay@Loudoun 2009 Family Festival held at Willow Creek Farm by Clyde's. The Festival is designed to bring a national theme home to the local area in a grassroots effort to promote environmental awareness.

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Juliana McDonald, 4, makes a bird feeder using peanut butter and bird seeds.

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Aleta Dust, a volunteer at The Raptor Conservancy, holds a Red Tailed Hawk during her presentation on birds of prey.

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Tammy Ward, National Aquarium visitors services manager, holds a Dumeril Boa Constrictor from Madagascar while visitors pet it.

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Gina Cusanelli, left, and Tim Buchholz walk passed different herbs such as garlic chives.

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Jake Domingues, 6, watches a Uromastyx Lizard from the Mali desert region in Africa.

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Kira Murphy, 5, looks at a Dumeril Boa Constrictor from Madagascar held by Tammy Ward, National Aquarium visitors services manager.

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Jon Hunt, left, shakes hands with Emily Simpson, 6, while he performs as a human statue called "Green Man" who comes alive every time someone donates money for the Rust Sanctuary during the first annual EarthDay@Loudoun 2009.

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