West Chester resident Ken Leister has built around 1,000 bluebird boxes over the last decade, including some for the Willistown Conservation Trust, writes Blake Goll for County Lines Magazine.

The retired teacher has made more than $14,000 in the process and donated it all to the Bluebird Society of Pennsylvania (BSP).

For Leister, 81, building boxes for bluebirds has been a passion for two decades. It began when he saw two of them flitting in and out of his birdbox at his home.

Enamored with his new neighbors, he was disappointed when they decided to fly away in the summer, instead of nesting. Later, he discovered that his birdhouse should be more centered in the yard. After moving the box, bluebirds nested three times the next summer, with 14 young joining their flock.

Leister was hooked, and soon became the BSP State County Coordinator with no intention of slowing down.

“You’ve got to keep active,” he said. “When I retire is when you’ll put me in the grave.”

Read more about Ken Leister in County Lines Magazine here.

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