“If you build it, they will come” is not just the memorable line from movie Field Of Dreams. For Anne Melady and Rita Christie, members of the West Perth…
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“If you build it, they will come” is not just the memorable line from movie Field Of Dreams. For Anne Melady and Rita Christie, members of the West Perth Environment, Forestry & Trails Committee, it also refers to a purple martin house they put up at the West Perth Wetlands in May.
Along with committee member Bert Vorstenbosch, Sr., the two women put up the house that faces the southeast cell at the back of the wetlands, and have seen at least one and possibly two of the birds around the house already. If it was erected earlier this spring, more could have nested there, but the committee members are still hopeful some will move in and many others will nest there next spring.