With her help, we picked almost 80 boxes: 45 boxes for a wide range of woodland bird species, eight microbat boxes, four small mammal boxes and 20 Greater Glider boxes (to be installed at our Burrin Burrin Reserve which was also heavily impacted by bushfire).
Alice supplied half while Max Suthern, a handy carpenter and father of Scottsdale Field Officer James Suthern, constructed the other half.
The team completed their safety and working at heights courses, we bought an eight metre ladder, harnesses, ropes and belays and we were ready to go!
Parrot species, in particular, like to come back to places where they've bred before so we chose places on the reserve where nest boxes could be installed as close as possible to the trees that were lost.