Panhandle Road Grid (PRG) Update Fifty-five nestboxes stand in ten rows in a field along the west side of Panhandle Road in the Delaware Wildlife Area. The sun’s rays have bleached their baffles white which makes the view of 25 and 22 yard box spacings impressive. White baffles make it easy to locate nestboxes while protecting […]
Short Notes for Early Spring 2018 Read More »
Time passing promises change, especially when it involves industrious beavers and an aging body. At the end of the 2004 nesting season, I dismantled three Eastern Bluebird and Tree Swallow nestbox trails for different reasons, and before the 2005 season, all of the boxes were reinstalled as two nestbox grids for Tree Swallows on the
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On December 4, 2017, Dick Phillips and I went about trading two repaired kestrel nestboxes for K-5 and K-10, two boxes of 18 boxes in the Delaware County American Kestrel Nestbox Project. During Dick’s drive of nearly 20 miles from his home in eastern Delaware County to my home in Delaware City, Dick counted four
Delaware County Kestrels in 2017 Read More »
The 2017 fall swift counts took place on 61 evenings among seven chimneys, and all but one roost stand inside Delaware City. My first count took place on August 8 and the last with swifts took place on October 11. I missed counting on October 12 since I was attending a meeting and a delicious supper catered by
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The “golden swamp warblers” had a very successful nesting season at Alum Creek Lake this season. Background I reinstalled the first six boxes to their pipes on March 23 when I could walk on dry lake bottom due to the fact that the lake was at winter water level. Later, I used my canoe to reinstall the
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On March 19, 2017, twelve nestboxes designed for bluebirds and Tree Swallows were added to a trail of eight boxes that were installed in Smith Park before the 2016 season. Twenty boxes now stand in the drainage ditch inundated with cattails that parallels Troy Road for 400 yards before it veers east into a pond.
Delaware County: Smith Park Tree Swallows – 2017 Report Read More »
