Oswego County Artist’s Bluebird Nestbox on E-Bay August 10-17

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Sackets Harbor, NY –Wildlife artist Robert J. “Bob” McNamara of Cleveland, NY, has donated a hand-painted bluebird nestbox to an e-Bay auction to benefit the not-for-profit Seaway Trail Foundation, Sackets Harbor, NY. McNamara designed a country meadow scene for the birdhouse donated by John Rogers, co-founder of the New York State Bluebird Society. The McNamara bluebird box will be auctioned online August 10-17.

McNamara, who is also a landscape architect, is now completing a series of 17 bird-theme Seaway Trail outdoor storyteller interpretive panels that will be set at significant points on the 518-mile long coastal byway. He has also designed a series of bird theme notecards for the nonprofit organization.

McNamara who was accepted to the prestigious Society of Animal Artists on his first application, is the illustrator, designer and editor of Tug Hill: A Four Season Guide to the Natural Side. He and ornithologist Gerry Smith are currently developing a Seaway Trail birding guide.

The E-Bay fundraiser is part of the year-long celebration of the Birds of the Great Lakes Seaway Trail and the natural resources of the 518-mile Great Lakes Seaway Trail along the St. Lawrence River, Lake Ontario, Niagara River and Lake Erie that provide excellent resting, nesting and feeding grounds for a variety of songbirds, waterfowl, raptors and the occasional rare visiting species.

The Seaway Trail Foundation has bluebird nestbox kits and assembled-but-unfinished nestboxes for sale at the Gift Shop at the Seaway Trail Discovery Center in Sackets Harbor.

The Birds of the Great Lakes Seaway Trail Exhibit and Speakers Program continues with programs by ornithologist Gerry Smith (August 7), Master Falconer Rick West (August 21), Mark Baldwin of the Roger Tory Peterson Institute of Natural History (September 18), retired Parks Canada Warden Bud Andress (October 9), and Audubon Christmas Bird Count Director Geoff LeBaron (November 6) at the Seaway Trail Discovery Center.

For more information, go online to www.seawaytrail.com or call 1-800-SEAWAY-T.

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