Building Nest Boxes
Pupils help build nesting boxes
PUPILS from a primary school in Oxford have been making their local park much more homely for their feathered friends.
The youngsters from St Andrew’s Primary School, Headington, have been spending their Saturdays making nest boxes to provide birds with somewhere to take refuge.
And on Friday the city council’s park wardens took the 24 boxes around Bury Knowle Park and helped to put them up.
Each box has been individually numbered so that youngsters can see how popular the birds’ new homes are becoming.
Adam Davenport, seven, from Headington, helped brother Oliver Davenport, nine, to make one of the boxes.
He said: “I think the boxes look really good and this is a good way of taking care of the birds.”
Fellow pupil Max Ebner, seven, from Headington, added: “The different pieces for the boxes were already cut out when we got them so they weren’t too hard to make.”
The flat-packed boxes were funded by community organisation Headington Action and children from the London Road school put them together.
The initiative was the brain-child of environment group Friends of Bury Knowle Park.
Chairman of the Friends Rosemary Belton said: “I hope it will make the park a much more friendly environment for birds.
“When we were given our Green Flag award last summer one of the comments the inspectors made was that there wasn’t much focus on wildlife and that made us think.
“The youngsters seemed to really get into it and they will be able to watch out for what is nesting in each other’s boxes over the next few months.”
National Nest Box Week, which runs until tomorrow, is encouraging people to put up nest boxes in their area.
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By Damian Fantato » PUPILS from a primary school in Oxford have been making their local park much more homely for their feathered friends. The youngsters from St Andrew's Primary School, Headington, have been spending their Saturdays making nest boxes
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Great fun building nest boxes this morning. Now looking fwd to Iron Age living at Dumpdon on Fri. Happy half term!