Smith Park Nestbox Production in 2020
The spring and summer brought more Eastern Bluebirds and Tree Swallows to Smith Park, where Dick Tuttle provides them with nestbox homes. Read on to find out how it went in this strange year.
Prothonotary Warbler Adventures: 2020
The quest to attract nesting “golden swamp warblers” starts with re-establishing their nesting structures at two locations, Alum Creek Lake near Kilbourne, Ohio, and along the original Leonardsburg Road in the Delaware Wildlife Area. At Alum Creek, forty-five pipes stand in the lake all year near the northern and western shore for a shoreline distance
Panhandle Rd Nestbox Grid for Tree Swallows: 2020
On August 27, 2020, I parked my car along Panhandle Road on the Delaware Wildlife Area and walked to nestbox 34, the only box left standing in the five-acre field that is home to 55 or more nestboxes during the spring and summer nesting seasons. Box-34 had fledged five House Wrens, the only wren family
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Conservation Projects Status – Late June 2020
Cattail Memories On May 3, I was monitoring my twenty nestboxes in Smith Park’s drainage ditch along Troy Road, and as I descended into the ditch in front of Box-12, a Red-winged Blackbird flew straight up from its nest located less than several feet away from the nestbox. At first, I did not see the
History Repeats Itself for Alum Creek Ospreys
On July 8, 2020, I drove to Alum Creek to check on the Osprey families on Platforms AC-1 and AC-2. Three fish hawk nestlings were standing with one their parents on AC-2 and they looked quite dignified as their feathers are about ready for them to start practicing for first flights. I returned to my
The Delaware County Kestrel Project – April 11, 2020
On April 11, Dick Phillips and I made our second round of checking eighteen American Kestrel nestboxes in the northern third of Delaware County, Ohio. The fifty-mile route on country roads is today’s version of nestboxes that were first made available before the 1993 season, and the first successful nest that followed in 1995. Since
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