Now an eager birdhouse builder could spend a great deal of time to build say 50 houses, including posts and clamps, and then find promising sites to install them. He kept making improvements, building house number 100, mostly out of recycled materials. About 4 years ago Jack built bluebird house number one thousand.
Today you’ll find bluebird houses on most of the golf courses, and many parks in the Twin City area. Bluebirders have only to drop off a birdhouse needing repairs on Jack’s porch and pick it up in a week.
His passion soon expanded to include other cavity nesters, so his next project was the prothonotary warbler. He found several good sites and built houses to promote their survival in Minnesota. Wood ducks also benefitted from Jack’s ambition.
The last few years, he has taken an interest in declining kestrel populations. He has built 24 kestrel houses, which you may have seen displayed at the MOU booth at the State Fair. He is currently seeking additional sites and monitors that would benefit kestrel families. So Jack Hauser is our winner of the Volunteer of the Year Award for 2022.”
Congratulation Jack from your friends at BBRP !!!
_________________________________________________________________________
Click here to see 5 ways you can protect water quality with your fall yard care
Click here, to see the entire Article.
_________________________________________________________________________
Check out the latest addition of the Red-headed Woodpecker Recovery Newsletter featuring an article Cicada Irruption Impact on Red-headed Woodpecker Populations.
