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Veteran makes birdhouse replicas of real homes as a way to give back By WJAR Staff | January 29, 2021 at 1:30 AM EST - Updated January 29 at 2:02 AM MIDDLEBOROUGH, Mass. (WJAR) - One Massachusetts woman has decided to take on a new hobby by making birdhouses as a way to give back to her community. The birdhouses are not your average birdhouse. These birdhouses are modeled after real homes. Mary Standish has several birdhouses and bird feeders outside of her home and inside of her shed, she is carefully crafting another. After having an operation on her foot this past spring, she turned a ...

A major foot surgery set Middleboro’s newest artistic/crafts person on the creative path. Tispiquin Street resident Mary Standish has developed an unusual hobby of creating birdhouses, which replicate real homes of folks she knows. One of her first endeavors was to build a birdhouse for her sister, Mrs. Caroline Don of “Cornerstone Farm” in Rochester.  After crafting a birdhouse, which is a near duplicate to her sister’s home, Mary used her artistic talents to paint the birdhouse in the same colors. “While convalescing,” Mary said, “I was able to use some carpentry talents, whi...