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Steve and Ralph, starting box #3. |
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Steve, putting the hinges on the roof. |
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The whole workshop, also known as Dee's garage. |
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Steve and Ralph, doing some touch up. |
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Dee, STILL sanding!! |
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Andy and Steve, starting box #4. |
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Steve, Ralph and Andy, assembling. |
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Time to call in the big guns -- Susan arrives to supervise! |
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Susan, putting the final touch on -- drainage holes in the bottom. Notice the stack of completed owl boxes behind her to the left. |
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Delivering the owl boxes to Maria Zondervan, Senior Land Resource Planner at the St. Johns River Water Management District |
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Sarah Linney and Dee made the last two boxes, proving that it is safe to give Dee pointy tools after all. |
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The big day is here: Installation! By the time Dee arrived* 4 boxes had already been installed, and the folks from the St. John's Water Management District were just finishing up this one. |
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David Brown, also from the St. John's Water Management District, handing one of the new boxes that Dee brought with her, up to Teddy in the cherry picker. |
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Teddy and Brice, mounting the box. This box is mounted just down the road from where Dee got her life Groove-billed Ani a few months ago. |
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Brice, adjusting the box. We placed dried grass inside so that some lucky owl will have a furnished apartment. |
So have Bsrn owls nested there? do you have a follow-up please?
ReplyDeleteHi, owls started nesting in our boxes immediately after we installed them. This photo from my life list is some of our babies: http://www.deederange.net/p/photographic-life-list.html
ReplyDeleteMany (if not all) of the boxes we built are no longer there. Most have been replaced by fancy, sturdier boxes that withstand storms and the Florida sun a little better. As far as I know though, there is still quite a healthy Barn Owl population out there now.