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Spring is here and with it comes the return of the lovely blue bird, a favourite of bird watchers.
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The Lower Thames Valley Conservation Authority is handing out about 50 blue bird boxes thanks to its enduring relationship with the Chatham-Kent Secondary School Environmental Club.
Alyssa Broeders, wetland and metropolitan stewardship professional, said the trainees have actually done an “absolutely amazing” job building the blue bird boxes.
“They are constructed beautifully, all the edges are sanded down,” she said. “It’s a really good group we had building them.”
CKSS tech instructor Gord Williams, who leads the ecological club, said trainees from grade 9 to 12, in addition to life abilities trainees, dealt with building the bird boxes.
The trainees likewise get to take home a blue bird box “as long as they promise to hang it up,” he said.
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Broeders said the bird homes are available totally free to the general public.
“Anyone who wants one is more than welcome to have one,” she said.
If you have an interest in a blue bird box, contact Broeders at 519-354-7310 ext. 246 or by email at [email protected].
The boxes can be gotten at C.M. Wilson Conservation Authority or the LTVCA workplace at 100 Thames St. in Chatham, she said.
Broeders said the blue bird boxes do best in big grassy locations.
But she included, “Just increasing that habitat community-wide is something that we’re really trying to do.”
The CKSS Environmental Club has actually likewise made wood duck boxes and bat boxes in addition to wood boxes for tree seeds for LTVCA stewardship programs.
Besides building structures, the ecological club that started about 15 years ago likewise goes on walkings in the spring and be up to see the duck migration, Williams said.
He included they do integrate in the winter season for the LTVCA and other companies.
The club’s next occasion will be a coastline clean-up at Rondeau Provincial Park “just to get the students out and clean up our shorelines after winter,” Williams said.
The club is open to trainees intrigued in the environment, he said.
“We’ll show you areas in the community that are beautiful and do a little stewardship education at the same time,” Williams said.
