Boxing clever – BASC helps Welsh schoolchildren make bird boxes

BASC has helped year 4 children at a North Wales primary school build bird boxes for their community.

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.