Young volunteers in Menai Bridge built nest boxes this week for National Nest Box Week 14-21 February 2012. The team at Menai Bridge Youth Club worked with the Isle of Anglesey County Council Waste Management Section, Tidy Towns and Keep Wales Tidy using recycled materials kindly donated by Huws Gray Ltd, Llangefni.
The next box building session was organised to get the young people involved in conservation, using the recycled wood they discussed recycling issues and the environmental importance of ‘reduce, reuse & recycle’. The aim of National Nest Box Week is to encourage everyone to put up nest boxes in their local area to promote and enhance biodiversity and provide homes for our Welsh breeding birds.
“We would like to thank Huws Gray Ltd for donating the timber we could reuse and recycle. This time of year is perfect for putting up a nest box. We gave the youth club members the boxes to put up in the Menai Bridge area,” said Lois Roberts, Isle of Anglesey County Council Tidy Towns Project Officer.
National Nest Box Week is lead by The British Trust for Ornithology (BTO) Britain’s leading bird research charity, whose work involves studying the populations of our common and garden birds. Early spring is an ideal time to put a nest box up as small bird pairs begin to look for nest sites in the latter half of February.
“The young people had a great session building their nest boxes. I would like to thank the Youth Club members, Huws Gray Ltd, the Isle of Anglesey County Council Waste Management Section, Tidy Towns and Keep Wales Tidy. We look forward to working on more conservation and environmental projects together,” said Martin Roberts, Youth Club Leader Menai Bridge.
“It is wonderful that the young people at Menai Bridge Youth Club have taken the time understand recycling and to get involved in improving the habitat for nesting birds in our town. Recent surveys are highlighting reduced numbers of many garden birds. It is good to see the younger generation contributing to bird conservation in our town,” said Cllr Keith Evans, Cadnant Ward.
Information on National Nest Box Week can be found online at http://www.bto.org/nnbw/index.htm. This has information on how to build a nest box, where to place it and how to clean out a nest box.
