What I did on Earth Day.

[Dave Duit]

Every earth day I give back and pay it forward to wildlife. This year I put 8 birdhouses throughout my county parks and wildlife areas; with their permission and paperwork of course. To date, I have 17 different birdhouses for a variety of bird species. This year I put up 5 chickadee/nuthatch houses and 3 wood duck boxes. I plan on putting up 8 more next year and so on and so on until the day I pass on. Other years I have gone around to area lakes in my kayak and takedown and pull out fishing line from trees and lake fallen trees. I get a kick out of helping mother earth. Shae your earth day endeavors in this thread.

[PMDavid]

Hey Dave ,good deal on placing housing for those birds. It’s always cool to see the future results of your efforts! So what I did, and it was last weekend” not really aimed at earth day”. Was......we went catfish jug gin in an old bar pit by the house and as we got around there was about a dozen old catfish floats left hung in the bushes from years gone by and a disrespectful person. They all still had old rusted hooks and of course the old and wrotten pool noodle pieces. I removed all those from the area and in the process found an old trot line in the water with about 50 rusted hooks still on ,also removed all that. I put it all in the floor of the boat ,took it home and threw in the trash,the place looked a lot better for it . Over the years of my fishing all over the state I have released 2great blue herons ,1 small blue heron,1 night bittern,1 kingfisher caught in a crank bait in a tree,and one otter caught on a trot line. As well as multiple cormorants caught on yo-yo’s. All of these creatures would have met certain death had they not been freed. I commend your intentional and planned annual efforts,more folks should adopt such habits.

[Dave Duit]

PMDavid, You are a godsend for helping the wildlife. I think there are some people still out there that care about wildlife. But, they need to toot their horns like we do to get a little recognition. Thanks my friend. Much appreciated and keep up the great work.

[Bird Brain]

I just hung my great crested flycatcher house. They are already here, looking for scarce cavities with an entrance hole large enough for them. This will be my third year hosting the GCF. They really depend on me and I can't let them down. I'm going to replace the GCF house with a northern flicker house. I think I can get 3 species at different times with a northern flicker house. The flicker will use it in the winter. The red bellied woodpecker will use it March and April. Then the GCF will use it May through early July. I believe the woodpecker will be finished with it before the GCF arrives. Time will tell. If you hate starlings, then you should welcome and embrace great crested flycatchers. They can easily fight off and defeat a starling. The starling will never forget the thrashing received by a GCF.

[susanw77]

You guys are wonderful! It isn’t horn-tooting, it is inspirational. Thanks for sharing. Perhaps more will chime in.

[Dave Duit]

Birdbrain,
It is good to see good folks like you that do it for the birds and have the sense of responsibility in taking care of the less thought of bird species. Susan, you are right; it is very inspirational.