What a way to start the 2022 New Year. Very happy to share that we were fortunate once again to receive a grant from the Bristol-Hansen community based charitable trust. Melbourne Avian Rescue Sanctuary is extremely grateful. This grant means so much to our non profit. To be recognized for the work we do is immeasurable.
MARS specializes in working with exotic avians. Helping so many people with their parrots and the numerous varieties of issues that arise. We help when ever and where ever we can. Established in 2008, our organizations reach is ever growing. Rehabilitation, and adoption our ultimate goals.
Established in the memory of Grace Bristol, and Gladys Hansen, both school teachers, then eventually living in Melbourne Village. These two women of vision, anticipating the future financial needs, within the community they loved, established a true testament to their legacy by creating this charitable foundation. To this day it continues on, helping so many non profit organizations within Brevard County Florida.
As a recipient, we wish to express a heartfelt thank you to Grace and Gladys, and the trustees of this grant program.
M.A.R.S. exotic bird rescue
Having a yard sale this coming weekend. 23&24
Where: 418 Ocean Ave. Mel Beach, Fl.
Times: 8:00 to 3:00 Friday and Saturday
Lots of items for your shopping pleasure, from decorative pieces to just about anything else you can imagine. This will be a smaller sale than normal as we are short handed volunteer wise. But it will still be a fun one!!
All proceeds go to benefit our non profit parrot rescue, Melbourne Avian Rescue Sanctuary or M.A.R.S. For short.
Hope to see you here. Thank you for reading.
Yard sale is almost a 4th of July must do, four houses, lots of new stuff. Give us some feed back on this
When we have so much cool stuff and no place to store it it is definitely time to do a yard sale for the parrots of MARS. So give us some feed back on doing this on a holiday weekend and we will post your comments and proceed from there. Yes we need volunteers on board for this to happen but how much fun could we all have eating barbecue
and celebrating our Nations Birthday toooooo!!!!
M.A.R.S. update, Part II (What did happen to Jakers?)
Now to continue on with the “Bird Drama”from our M.A.R.S. blog of May 15th. Remember, I promised you all there would be some now and agian. Well, we still owe you an ending to that story.
Jakers, as any of you who know him, delights in spending all his time up in the mulberry tree located within the Melbourne Avian Rescue Sanctuary visitor area. (Yes, unfortunately at this time we are still closed to visitors, but working hard on a solution to change that status). This time of the year the mulberry tree is in full foliage and can provide complete camouflage to even a (white) Cockatoo. Jakers more then takes advantage of this fact. He pretty much stays up there all day observing all that happens at our Florida Parrot Rescue M.A.R.S.. At times one is keenly aware that he is commenting or singing, but you always know that he is watching. The exception to this behavior is usually just heading down the branches for treats and water, only to quickly return to the upper parts of the tree where he continues his watchful gaze.
This day was to provide the other exception. From high up as we told you in our last blog, Jake spotted someone who he thought was quite interesting,(our prior adopter) and considering all the commotion happening below, he did come down and join in for a laugh and some playtime with this human. The noise level escalated, it was time to rein it all in. We proceeded to do just that, or so we thought.
Shortly after this, when we noticed Jake was gone, and I had done (the Lu thing), we were all looking around for him and heard laughter. It was coming from a cage. Our visitor, had mistaken Jakers for Dusty, and placed him there. What makes this even better is that Jake never allows anyone to cage him easily, to Jake this means a bath and he absolutely hates baths. So upon our discovery of the mistaken identity of the caged bird, Jakers proceeded to let out a most gleeful laugh, followed by all the rest of us doing exactly the same thing.
Never, ever, dull here at Melbourne Avian Rescue Sanctuary. Please stay tuned for our updates and follow us on this blog and our facebook.com/marsparrots page. We so appreciate all who do so, and remember also to tell all your friends to do so and hopefulll they will hit the like our page button.
Oh Christmas tree, oh Christmas tree…..
Anyone who follows M.A.R.S. knows we are attempting to fill our tree with lots of toys and goodies for the birds.
We are so happy to report some good news to all of you. Yesterday, Jennifer and Greg Groll brought a box of bird toys to get us off to a wonderful start to this project.
Soon there after we received two paypal notifications of christmas donations, which today we are using to purchase more toys for the tree.
At this rate we actually might have a toy filled tree just in time for Christmas which as we all know is almost here !!!!
Merry Christmas to all from Melbourne Avian Rescue Sanctuary. May your holidays be filled with joy and love and laughter