Bluebirds will be happy this season (and years to come)

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Thanks to everyone that helped install bluebird boxes at Wendemuth!
Thanks to everyone that helped install bluebird boxes at Wendemuth, Shelby, Rick, Vicky, John, Jane, Mick, Christine, Harbour, Ann, Donald, Brett, Doris, Harrison. Missing from the photo is Dick and Cynthia.

In a matter of an hour 21 bluebird boxes were installed at Wendemuth Meadow yesterday! Many thanks to Harrison for providing all the boxes, hardware and know how to get it done!!

Bluebirds are a declining species in Massachusetts primarily because of loss of habitat, meaning that their natural tree hollows and open fields with lots of insects to eat are in limited supply. Well, Wendemuth Meadow is a perfect place for bluebirds, if there was some place for them to nest. Now there is, thanks to Harrison and the volunteers that installed them.

 

Shelby is screwing in the fasteners.
Shelby is screwing in the fasteners to keep the box snugly on the pole.
Rick is pounding in the pole.
Rick is pounding in the pole for a box along the wetland edge behind the barn.