Name: Build Your Own Bluebird Box
Start: 2025-02-25T12:00:00-05:00
End: 2025-02-25T15:00:00-05:00
Location: The North Carolina Arboretum

This three-hour class will give a history of the bluebird and its lifecycle and each participant will build their own nest box.
About this Event

Build Your Own Bluebird Box

with Joe Sanders

ON-SITE | Tuesday, February 25 | 12 - 3 pm

Blue Ridge EcoGardener - Elective Credit

Help bluebirds thrive in your area by learning how to construct and place a bluebird nest box on your property. Bluebirds actually need human intervention in order to compensate for their natural habitats being overtaken by non-native species. This three-hour class will give a history of the bluebird and its lifecycle. Each participant will build their own cedar nest box of the type that has proven popular with bluebirds. No carpentry experience is required. You will go home with a completed bluebird nest box, mounting pole, and written information on attracting bluebirds to your property.

Joe Sanders has been working with bluebird restoration for over 30 years and is currently a County Representative for the North Carolina Bluebird Society. He has taught classes to numerous community garden groups and currently monitors nest boxes during the nesting season, including those on the Arboretum grounds.

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