Green-Wing Day

Once a year NMWF puts on a Green-wing day. The program is designed for young kids to have a day out and make a contribution to the environment. What NMWF has focused on is making wood duck boxes, for hen wood ducks to lay their eggs in.

Our Green-wing day takes place on the North Eastern part of Libau marsh in a area called Whittles Point. All the kids that come to the Green-wing day get an opportunity to construct a wood duck box or a wren house. The kids hammer and screw the boxes together, with the help of the members of NMWF and the parent volunteers. Since this takes place during February or March, the kids have a nice warm cabin to go into to defrost and warm up with cups of hot chocolate.

After all the boxes are made NMWF puts on a winter BBQ to fill the kids up. The day ends with a discussion on why making these boxes are important and how it helps the wood duck population

Some of the boxes are put up around Netley/Libau marsh while the others are taken home by the kids to be put up at home in the hopes that a female wood duck will choose their box to raise a family.