Mike Bishop is founder and director of the Northern Virginia Purple Martin Initiative (check out their Facebook page). He will mainly speak about purple martins but will also address other cavity-nesting birds and the work of the Purple Martin Initiative. The Northern Virginia Purple Martin Initiative is a grass roots effort to provide housing for all native Cavity Nesting birds at no cost on public lands. Some of the species they are attempting to help include the Purple Martin, Woodpeckers, Chimney Swift, Great Crested Flycatchers, Titmouse, Chickadees, Wrens, Bluebirds and Tree Swallows. To date they have installed 22 Purple Martin colonies , 2 Wood Duck trails, 3 Bluebird trails, and a Kestrel project. Founded in 2015, the initiative has been successful in bolstering the numbers of selected cavity nesting birds by installing housing in the proper habitat and monitoring by trained volunteers.
Join us at 7 p.m. on Zoom. The link to the meeting will has been sent to all WBC members.
Non-members are welcome. If you are not a member, please send email to Cheryl Jacobson at jcheryljoy@aol.com to get the Zoom link.
