Did you get a drone for Christmas and would like to test it?
The Salmon Arm Nature Bay Enhancement Society (SABNES) has worked hard on the foreshore to create four hummocks to enhance habitat.
SABNES volunteers would like to have aerial photos of their development.
The hummocks are now covered in snow, but this spring they will be planted to increase biodiversity along the foreshore Nature Trust land/trails.
“While the trails are closed for the city’s sewer relining works, there’s an excellent lookout/launch spot along 4361 13th St. NE above the Raven subdivision,” says SABNES president Janet Aitken.
As part of the enhancements along the trail, SABNES is also looking for pallets to modify and build waterfowl nesting platforms, cinder blocks to anchor them between the toes of the new hummocks, tree stumps [root wads] with a two- to four-metre log to place for habitat complexity and turtle basking.
Also on the SABNES’ wish list are some 10-15m poles to install this winter for placement of bird and bat boxes.
If you can assist in any way, connect with Gerry Leering at 250-463-1496 or send an email to gerry_leering@telus.net.