As our campus was developed and is being developed, we made a choice to include areas like the Bird Sanctuary for our members and guests to enjoy along with members of the community (you’ve probably noticed there is one apartment complex next to our campus, a retirement community across from us on Cleveland Road and an apartment complex across from us on University Drive). With these areas, we hope that people will contemplate God as our creator and find a place to reflect on God surrounded by nature.
People who enjoy nature and appreciate what we’re doing with the “soft” areas on campus often find their “fit” on a Campus Operations team. The Birds of a Feather team cares for the Bird Sanctuary and fills and maintains the feeders and bird baths. They do this all year around. Each team member is assigned a day of the month to fill the feeders and do a little “housekeeping” in the sanctuary.
A wide variety of birds visit or call our campus home. We see blue jays, cardinals, cedar waxwings, bluebirds, ducks, Canadian geese, woodpeckers and mourning doves. This spring the team will try to attract Baltimore Orioles.
We also have a geocache in our Bird Sanctuary. What is a geocache? Check out http://www.geocaching.com. The link to the geocache in our sanctuary is http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_details.aspx?wp=gc1h5g0.
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