photo by Carolyn Bertsch
John Heinen, a member of the St. Joseph Rod and Gun Club, assists Erbin Cheney, 9, with building a wren house March 18 at the club’s annual birdhouse building event. Both are from St. Joseph.

St. Joseph Rod and Gun Club member Ray Bechtold (left) assists Mariel Lindgren, 6, and her grandfather, Mike Lindgren, with their bluebird house March 18 at the annual birdhouse making event which took place at the American Legion in St. Joseph. All are from St. Joseph.

Rich Utecht, of Richmond, takes home a wren and butterfly house made March 18 at the St. Joseph Rod and Gun Club birdhouse building event in St. Joseph.