Dick Tuttle

Nesting seasons involve many things such as the arrival of adult birds, courtship, selecting and winning nest sites, laying eggs, feeding nestlings, fledging events, etc., but for most conservationists that offer nestboxes to birds, they describe a nesting season as the period when their nestboxes are active with eggs and young. The Delaware County Health […]

American Kestrels As of June 26, Dick Phillips and I have made nine monitoring trips to 18 kestrel nestboxes that make up the Delaware County Kestrel project that was launched in 1993. Since the project’s first nest in 1996, our continent’s smallest falcons have fledged 1,164 offspring. Five of our latest visits, starting with May

Most of the veteran Ospreys are back from Brazil and other wintering spots in South America. After the Osprey team reestablished AC-1 at the northern end of Alum Creek Lake off of Hogback Road on March 13, a male Osprey started adding sticks the following day. However, while I visited the area during the following

Dick Tuttle tells us more about how he and Dick Phillips prepare Kestrel nest boxes for a new spring nesting season.

Delaware Township Hall, located at 2590 Liberty Road, is home to fourteen bluebird nestboxes. A fourteen acre lot is home to the hall and the property includes a six acre open woodland named the John Young Park that includes walking trails and other commodities designed for public use. The remaining acreage is two fields of

Seasons Once our native birds have completed their nesting seasons, it is time to winterize boxes for those that stay for any part of the winter, and it is also time to accomplish repairs, relocations, and other preparations for the next season. Boxes are winterized by plugging or closing vents with strips of felt weather