Flight Barn

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 are in use right now. The surrounding loop will be built in the Spring of 2009. 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.
Concord crew clears ground

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 original, before the arrival of the dozer.

The hillside gets cut and leveled as the dozer begins the relentless push.
The dozer starts cutting into the hill.

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.
>The site is cleared and leveled.

September 21, 2006 - Here Caleb Keneipp, Brooke Lucas, and Ron Perrone set up and spike down the timber foundation.
The octagonal foundation.

September 25, 2006 & September 27, 2006 - Tonry Lathroum, Ron, Wendy (taking the picture), Caleb, Brooke, and Carole Jackson start the hallway walls and roof.
Spiking Walls go up

October 10, 2006 - Now the walls of the 3 inner rooms go up.		 October 18, 2006 - Volunteers from Concord University pitch in.
... and up ... ... and up...

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.
More walls.


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.  
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.
Higher walls .... Flight Barn as of 11-06-06

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.

Alisha Morey's family join Ron and Caleb to slam up more plywood and hang 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.