Building a Home for Spirit
Because Spirit is fully flighted, his cage had to be enormous. It worked out to be 9' high,
12' wide, and 50' long. Attached would be a 12' x 12' mew (building). Inside the cage is a
small pond for bathing and varied perches.
Financing came from multiple sources and our efforts succeeded in raising $21,000 to prepare the site,
improve access, and build the cage. From concept to finish it took 7 months.
The TRAC staff and Board of Directors express their heart felt gratitude to all the people who
volunteered their time, equipment, energy and money to this huge project.
Here is the site before construction.
Plywood forms were constructed to allow us to pour a concrete footer/wall.
The footer was then filled in with gravel, dirt and eventually, mulch.
Here volunteer Tonry Lathroum operates the front end loader.
The framing crew begins the wooden cage. Andrei Kharisov, Ron Perrone, Timofei Kharizov, Marco Jorden
Ron, Ian, and
Tonry still pounding nails.
Fiona inspects
the chain link fencing going up.
The last fencing
staples. The roof on the mew is almost done too!
Its Tanya Rakhmanina, Timofei Kharisov, Ron and Andrei Kharisov today.
The rock wall around the base was Andrei's handiwork. The rest of us just hauled rocks out of the woods for him.
Spirit is very happy!
For
some reason, I can't find a photo of Terry Carrington or
Wendy
Perrone working on the cage. Sorry! They put in many long hours.