Thank you for visiting our fundraising page!!

I am nine years old. My brother Ivan is four. I have been raising money for bird-a-thon for four years. This is Ivan's first year helping out. We both love birds. Ivan has a good eye for hawks. My favorite birds are osprey, owls, and piping plovers. We both love terns, and every summer, in our junior bird club, we walk down through Allens Pond Wildlife Sanctuary to see the tern colony at Barney's Joy beach.

I also love to draw birds. I have won a few contests for my artwork of birds, most recently, the Massachusetts Junior Duck stamp contest. This year I drew a  pair of buffleheads at dusk in winter.

Here a few things Ivan and I are really excited about in birding this spring: we just went out in the boat for the first time this year and saw several pairs of osprey that had set their nests. A great horned owl behind my grandparents house just had two babies, and I can see their little heads poking up. With my mom and dad, we have just started monitoring blue-bird boxes. It is my fourth year doing this. Last year, Ivan came too. Last year we had a nest blue-birds that fledged, and several nests of tree swallows. Once when we checked the nests, we saw babies that had just hatched!

Please consider donating five dollars or more to help us reach our goal this year, to help the birds we love and to help protect their habitat.

And if you donate 25 dollars or more and email us your address, we will send you a pack of 6 cards with some of our artwork.

Thanks for your support!!!

Jack and Ivan