Budding birder brings energy, passion to job tending school’s bird feeders (SNN)

Nestled at the heart of Breton Downs Elementary, there’s an outdoor courtyard space that fourth-grader Porter Hall has turned into his domain.

For a school “job” assigned by his teacher at the start of the year, Porter was put in charge of making sure the bird feeders in the courtyard are filled. Despite having no prior experience with, or knowledge of, birds or ornithology, Porter greeted the task with interest, pride and enthusiasm that’s spreading to his classmates and sparked a new interest in the school’s avian visitors.

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