Boxing clever – BASC helps Welsh schoolchildren make bird boxes

[Conor O'Gorman]

Pupils at Ysgol Acrefair School in North Wales are on a mission to improve biodiversity in their local area. Having carried out a bird count, they discovered that there were very few songbirds around. They decided to make bird feeders and seed balls to put in the school grounds and local hedgerows. The aim was to help the birds survive through the ‘hungry gap’ by providing extra food.

The initiative was part of a school project to improve the local environment and biodiversity. Having heard about the project through a parent, the BASC Wales team wanted to help by providing bird nesting boxes.

As a result, BASC team members visited the school with a gift of bird box kits for the year four students to build. They then worked with the children, showing them how to stay safe while having fun using hammers and nails to build the boxes.

All in all the children made 28 boxes. Some they took home to encourage songbirds to nest in their own gardens with the rest put up around the school.ble for running BASC and making decisions on BASC strategy and policy.

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Boxing clever - BASC helps Welsh schoolchildren make bird boxes

Pupils at Ysgol Acrefair School in North Wales are on a mission to improve biodiversity in their local area, with a little help from BASC.

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[labrador77]

@Conor O'Gorman, a couple reside here on the mid Essex coast, kindly donated by BASC at last years game fair. Put together under supervision by himself, one at home and one for his village primary school. Youngsters like him are our future and need every incentive and encouragement.

 

[Conor O'Gorman]

@Conor O'Gorman, a couple reside here on the mid Essex coast, kindly donated by BASC at last years game fair. Put together under supervision by himself, one at home and one for his village primary school. Youngsters like him are our future and need every incentive and encouragement.
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Absolutely - great photo!

 

[Apthorpe]

Very good. I daresay that more could have been done to benefit songbirds had BASC been able to help the schoolkids start a small farm shoot. The teachers and council would have loved that.