Volunteer Spotlight - Stephen Gruber

Stephen Gruber has volunteered at The Raptor Trust since 1999, another volunteer who has dedicated many years of service to our organization. Steve loves being outside, helping out the Great Swamp Partner organizations, and volunteers building the new boardwalks at the Wildlife Observation Drive as well as with us at TRT. He spends so much of his week outside in the Great Swamp, he is sure to see his favorite bird, the Red-Bellied Woodpecker. During COVID, when TRT shut down our volunteer program, Steve came in every day to help us with the mountain of laundry that was building up!

A man of many interests, Steve first heard about The Raptor Trust when he struck up a conversation at a Littoral Society meeting. The woman to whom he spoke, a fellow nature lover, recommended Steve check out TRT, and the rest, as they say is history.
Steve volunteers in our Food Prep and Cage Cleaning area, where he says his favorite part of being here is helping the birds and being surrounded by such nice people. Thanks, Steve, we like having you around too!