[wisb] Nest Box Seminar

From: Jeffrey Bahls <jbahls@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: wisbirdnet <wisbirdn@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 11 Feb 2011 19:58:02 -0600
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Welcome Spring – Welcome the Birds
     With the return of spring, comes the return of birds to our
yards. A Nest Box Seminar will be held at the Horicon Marsh
International Education Center on Saturday, March 12, 2011.  Events at
this seminar will help you to enhance the habitat of your backyard and
beyond, and to learn about songbirds and raptors that use nest boxes.
        Members of the Horicon Marsh Bird Club have organized the seminar to
be held at the HMIEC located north of Horicon on highway 28.  There
will be displays by the Bluebird Restoration Association of Wisconsin
(BRAW), the Horicon Marsh Bird Club, Marsh Haven Nature Center on
Purple Martins, the Wood Duck Society, and a display on supplemental
feeding of Bluebirds by a research fellow of UW-M. Members of these
organizations will be available during the event to answer questions
and discuss their role in providing "housing" for native cavity
nesters and other wildlife.  An indoor demonstration nest box trail, a
display on how to raise your own mealworms, a sparrow control
demonstration, as well as videos of inbox activities of Wood Ducks,
American Kestrels, E. Screech Owls, Tree Swallows and bats will also
be ongoing during the day. People of all ages can build their own
birdhouses (great activity for children) assisted by carpenters of the
Beaver Dam Senior Center’s woodshop.  Various nest boxes and kits can
be purchased. A box lunch will be available for a small fee for those
who plan to stay for the day. Admission to the event is FREE!
        Schedule:
        -    9:00 AM – Open House begins
-       9:15 AM - Barb Harvey, a local raptor rehabilitator, will show live
cavity nesting raptors and what you can do to help them. Children will
be especially interested in this presentation.
-       10:30 – Bob Tamm, BRAW coordinator for SE Wisconsin, will give a
presentation on Bluebird nest box placement and monitoring.
-       11:30 – Jamie Shorts, environmental educator at the Neighborhood
House Nature Center will talk about her experiences with children on
the center’s nest box trail in Dodge Co.
-       12:00 noon Box lunches available from BD Senior
-       1:00 PM- Larry Vine, Director of Marsh Haven Nature Center, located
adjacent to the Horicon National Wildlife Refuge, and Tony Oechsner,
designer, builder and caretaker of the MHNC Purple martin colony, will
talk about the center’s successful Purple Martin Colony.
-       1:30 – Vicki Piaskowski – Co-Author of the book “How to Manage Your
Land to Help Birds” will speak on improving the habitat for the
Black-capped Chickadee.
-       2:15 PM - Jack Bartholmai, Dodge Co. coordinator for BRAW and
wildlife photographer, will present a program on monitoring nest boxes
in his “backyard” and on a Dodge Co. golf course.
For further information contact Jack Bartholmai (Dodge Co. BRAW
Coordinator) at (920) 887-1505(jack@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx)


Jeff Bahls
Lowell Wi
Dodge Co
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