Virtual program offered on building screech-owl boxes
The Oak Ridger
Join the University of Tennessee Arboretum Society for its First Thursday Nature Supper Club at 7 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 5, as participants learn how to build a roost box for a screech-owl.
Eastern screech-owls are the smallest owls that live in area woods. Like any animal, they need food, water and shelter. Since they are nocturnal, these owls look for a hollow tree or other safe place to hide and sleep year-round during the day.
"We will show you some of the important features needed to provide safe habitat when you build a roost box," according to a UT Arboretum Society news release. "You provide your own stay-at-home supper, and we provide the nature as local naturalist Stephen Lyn Bales will entertain and teach us via Zoom. There will be a question-and-answer session after the “how to” program. A pdf (portable document format) of the screech-owl box plans will be sent to all those that register for the class.