There has
been action aplenty in the Palm Lake Ballina Workshop this month as a small
group of residents has been busily handcrafting wooden bird boxes.
The Workshop
group were responding to a call-for-help from our local Wildlife Society
looking for talented folk to make the boxes. The Society places the bird boxes in
fire-ravaged bush areas for the shelter and protection of vulnerable birdlife. It
also encourages birds to return to that area.
Michael
Sherlock, Max Armstrong, Ron Rawson, David Crawford and Peter Kafka rose to the
challenge and have handed over their first production lot of 25 bird boxes.
Good onya’ guys!
The Wildlife
Society were so pleased they have asked for more but also added possum boxes to
the order. If you have had anything to do with purchasing wood in the last few
years you will know that it is not cheap! The material to make each bird box
costs close to $20; the possum boxes will obviously be more. Our Residents’
Committee funded the first batch, but they need more for the next lot.
Wouldn’t
you love to support such a worthy cause?
You can,
by:
- volunteering to help the Workshop group
- donating money to the group
- buying raffle tickets at the first Happy Hour in April (04.04.2020) where the proceeds from the PLB Social Committee’s raffle will be given over to the Workshop group.
