| This
year, the Center's flight conditioning cages are are being replaced by
a permanent flight barn which will give us 3 standard sized flight
cages surrounded by a 12 foot wide "racetrack"that will be a continuous
flyway, enabling patients to build up stamina prior to
release. The building will measure 52 by 64 feet. The original design was obtained from Avian Haven of Maine. |
| Construction
is well underway, and the interior 3 rooms will be ready to use by
Winter. The surrounding loop will be built in the Spring of 2007. Below are a
series of photos showing the project. We will be adding more as
construction continues. Photos by Wendy Perrone except where noted. |
March 2, 2006
First off, the old flight cages had to be torn down and the mess cleaned up.
Here Wendy and Ron Perrone are joined by Angela Lamb and her students from Concord University as they tear into the job.
April 1, 2006
The site as it then appeared before new construction began. Scrub and multiflora roses cover the slope in the background where the Flight Barn will go. It will replace the fabric cages which used to occupy the open area between the Eagle Cage in the foreground and the rose bushes and trees in the back..
The hillside gets cut and leveled as the dozer begins the relentless push.
April 6, 2006
The site has been levelled and trenched by Tonry Lathroum on the backhoe and must settle for much of the Summer before construction can begin.
September 21, 2006
Here Caleb Keneipp, Brooke Lucas, and Ron Perrone set up and spike down the timber foundation.
September 25, 2006
September 27, 2006
Tonry Lathroum, Ron, Wendy (taking the picture), Caleb, and Carole Jackson start the hallway walls and roof.
October 10, 2006
Now the walls of the 3 inner rooms go up.
October 18, 2006
Volunteers from Concord University pitch in.
October 26, 2006
A view of the long inner room on the left, and the 2 smaller rooms separated by the hallway on the right.
November 1, 2006
Here Ron and Caleb add 2 extra feet to bring the exterior walls of the three inner cages up to 12 feet.
As of November 11, 2006
This is the view from a nearby tree (photo courtesy of Caleb). The inner dividing walls will rise another 4 feet (to 14 feet) and
provide the pitch of the roof.
December 3, 2006
Here Andy Woodruff and Ron are laying out the rafters.
December 12, 2006
Andy and Ron atop the roof, which is ready for the transluscent panels.
By January 3, 2007,
half of the Tuftex roof panels were on., covering the long cage #3.
Below, Alisha Morey's family slammed up more plywood and hung the door to the largest cage. Left to right; Nyoka, Nathan, Lou, and Robert .
On January 11, 2007, a female Peregrine falcon was released into the largest of the three cages, cage #3 for flight conditioning prior to release.
