Under renovation: Bird boxes disappear from B.C. waterway

Boxes perched on poles adjacent to open water are such a common sight on the Island that when they disappeared in Tod Inlet, folks noticed.The sea of empty posts spurred a spiralling online conversation that, from John Creviston’s perspective, happily brought the purple martin back into the spotlight.Traditionally the largest swallow in North America nests in a colony in groups of standing snags – brush killed by flood or fire – along the shore.
“Over time … people