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Our school is doing a project for English. We have to choose something that we are passionate about and that can help our community. The passion project that my friend and I are going to do is building birdhouses and seeing how they can affect our community. We choose this because we feel that birds will greatly improve our community/ neighborhood. There are two problems that this helps solve; the rapid decrease of bird populations in the U.S. and a large number of garden pests in our neighborhood. The Question we are trying to answer is, could the decrease of birds be connected to habitat loss, and will the birds help our community. Our solution is the production of birdhouses that will give birds a safe habitat in a human community. What birds can do for our community, Lots of people enjoy being able to watch and listen to birds around their homes. This has also produced a hobby of bird watching. Birds help home gardeners by eating the pests that harm the growing plant’s which can lead to more plant life. Birds also spread seeds throughout the community increasing the biodiversity of the plant life. Our plan is to first find environmentally friendly birdhouses we can build, then we will Assemble the birdhouses. After that, we can place them throughout our neighborhood (with permission)And finally we will document what we notice this will lead to our success because it executes an organized plan that has step-by-step organized processes. Today my friend and I have ordered eco-friendly birdhouses that we will assemble and hang up by next week. We are excited to help out our community more and we’ll update you next week.
-Caleb Kezeor

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The second week of our project has begun, The birdhouses have arrived today and we are planning to assemble them. These birdhouses cost around 13 $ and are Eco friendly( which means that they are safe for the environment).  When we assemble these birdhouses we will be very cautious to make sure that there is no excess glue or any other substances that can harm these birds when they are making themselves at home.

After we assemble these birdhouses we will hang them up. We will hang two up at my house and two up at my friend's house. We have decided to not paint the birdhouses because according to happy gardens, “as long as you use non-toxic paint. Also, ensure the paint you use is not so dark that it absorbs too much heat. Finally, keep in mind that overly bold and bright colors may attract predators if not carefully placed” (happygardens.com). In the birdhouses, there was no information about the paint so we decided to not risk harming the birds with toxic paint. We also don't want predators to get intrigued by these bright colors and come and destroy the birdhouses or harm the birds inside.

Next week we plan to hang up these birdhouses and to start recording what we see. We will update you next week.

-Caleb Kezeor.

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The third week has started. we just hung up the birdhouses and we are waiting for the birds to come. Building the birdhouses was pretty easy but there were some difficulties with the glue. Our hope for this week is that there will be birds starting to come to our houses and making themselves at home. We have decided to add another step after our last week. We are going to donate the birdhouses that we built, to the neighbors in our neighborhood. We have decided that we will go door to door and see if anyone wants to take our birdhouses and if they would want to enjoy the company of birds. We feel like giving the birdhouses to other people in our community, would benefit them more than if they were only hung up in our yards. If they were hung up in our yards we feel that their presence would not be enjoyed as much by us then they would be enjoyed by other people. If there were birds living in the birdhouses before the last week we would not move the birdhouse because we feel that will scare or harm the birds. We know that it is unlikely that birds will nest in these houses. This is because most birds nest during the spring, but there are some birds that will nest during the winter. These birds are present in our community being woodpeckers, chickadees, bluebirds, titmice, and more. The nationals wildlife federation states, “In winter, a few species of songbirds....will also use roost boxes to stay warm. Among them: bluebirds, chickadees, titmice, screech owls and some woodpeckers.”(https://www.nwf.org/en/Magazines/National-Wildlife). Our birdhouses are smaller which means that they would be suitable for smaller birds such as chickadees and titmice.
Next week's plan is to document the changes we see in our community and to hopefully give the birdhouses away depending on the circumstance. Update you next week!
-Caleb Kezeor

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Our last week is here and we are wrapping up our project. Sadly, we have not noticed birds coming to our birdhouses.  This is okay though, because now we are able to give the birdhouses to our neighbors. Our plans for this are to go home, get together with my partner for this project, and take the birdhouses to our neighbors to see if they want them. In all, our birdhouses were partial successes. We consider this a partial success because there were failures and there were successes. If we were to change things about this project we would change what birdhouses we got and when we started this project. We would change the birdhouses we got, because these houses were pretty small and not a lot of birds would be able to fit comfortably in the house. The houses could also be sturdier.  If there was some snow we think that the birhouses would break.  Or if there was a fat bird living in the house we worry that the bottom would break or the string would break. We would change what time we started because if we started in the summer there would be a lot more birdlife that would possibly live in our houses. Since we started in the fall most of the birds had already migrated to warmer areas so there were not a lot of birds to come to our houses. Thank you for following along with our birdhouse journey, we are ending it here. Bye!

-Caleb Kezeor

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This is the link to my friend's blog that is helping me with this project. Go show her some support, https://padlet.com/eemijares/d641g2436o7kgnkf