This One's For the Birds

A team of volunteers and children volunteered their time Tuesday evening for a guerrilla beautification project in one of Del Ray’s parks.

The motely crew organized by Pat Miller hung 20 donated birdhouses in the trees of Charles W. Hill Park.

The third-of-an-acre park located at 300 E. Oxford Ave. is named after an Alexandria police officer killed in the line of duty in the late 1980s.

The APD’s Special Operations Team, of which Hill was a member, adopted the park in 2008. The unit cleans the park once a month. 

Special Operations officers were on hand Tuesday to assist in the birdhouse effort. 

Check out video of the effort above.