Blue Bird Boxes

"The Eastern Bluebird , once common in every rural back yard, was almost wiped to extinction, post World War II, by widespread use of DDt, in the early 1950's. A very stron comeback was eminent after DDT was banned, but changing farming practices became quite yet another devastating problem.
The disapperance of the farm orchard, small field and hedge row elimination, as well as the craze to clean up the dead snags in the wood-lot, have all weighed very heavily in their ability of finding available nesting places. All sites were inadvertently wiped from rural route terrain, which was once their comfortable habitat."

As Earthday approaches, a group of homeschooling families gathered at another family's home to build bluebird boxes. We were given a short presentation on bluebirds and why they are so rare in our area by the Greenspaces for Wellington organization. All three of the kids enjoyed using the screwdriver to put together a beautiful cedar box for our backyard.

















"The Bluebird, blessed with a vivid blue back and soft russet breast, is a bright, keen eyed, friendly little member of the songbird family. It has a low fluted, twin syllable, intriguing song, which, once heard, is hard to shake from one's memory."











Throw in a hill, a couple of rain barrels and lots of kids on top and you have a great day!