From PA Game Commission
It’s soon time to say goodbye to winter and hello to spring.
Spring might not be “just around the corner,” but bluebirds will be scouting out nesting sites before you know it, and the Pennsylvania Game Commission can help bring them and other songbirds to your backyard.
Bluebird nesting boxes built by staff at the Game Commission’s Howard Nursery are available for sale, and can be ordered over the phone or purchased directly at the nursery office, the Game Commission’s Harrisburg headquarters and Game Commission region offices. Nesting-box kits also are available.
Nursery staff build bluebird and other nesting boxes during the winter for annual sales to the public. A single box sells for $12, plus Pennsylvania sales tax. When purchasing two or more boxes, the cost is $11 each, plus sales tax.
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An Eastern Bluebird casts a shadow on it s house in Lawrence, Kan., Friday, May 4, 2018. (AP Photo/Orlin Wagner)
HARRISBURG Spring might not be just around the corner, but bluebirds will be scouting out nesting sites before you know it, and the Pennsylvania Game Commission can help bring them and other songbirds to your backyard.
Bluebird nesting boxes built by staff at the Game Commission’s Howard Nursery are available for sale, and can be ordered over the phone or purchased directly at the nursery office, the Game Commission’s Harrisburg headquarters and Game Commission region offices. Nesting-box kits also are available.
Landowners wanting to plant tree species that benefit wildlife are in luck.
The state game commission on Monday will start its annual sale of tree and shrub seedlings from its Howard Nursery in Centre County. The sale will continue through April 23.
Orders can be placed online through www.pgc.state.pa.us, then click on the “Forms and Programs” section and choose “Howard Nursery Seedling Program.”
The sale was canceled in the spring because of covid-19.
Howard Nursery produces bare-root seedlings for wildlife food and cover on state game lands.
The commission began producing seedlings and other plants at the facility in 1954 to supply wildlife food and cover plantings on state game lands. In addition, the nursery grows tree and shrub seedlings for use on hunter access properties, the Seedlings for Schools program and the commission’s conservation partners.
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