Dick Tuttle

  On March 17, 2017, Dick Phillips and I checked all 18 boxes of the Delaware County American Kestrel Nestbox Project starting at nine o’clock in the morning. We traveled the fifty-mile route in Dick’s pickup truck that held his extension ladder. The boxes are always checked in mid-March every year in order to make sure all

A unique kestrel adventure began on October 22, 2014 when I received an email from Donna Schwab, Assistant Wildlife Management Supervisor, ODNR, Division of Wildlife. Donna had presented me with contact information for Kathy Wolboldt, Case Manager at the London Correctional Instition (LoCI), who was in the early stages of developing the PROOF program. Kathy

Dick Phillips and I maintain and monitor 18 boxes of a project that started 25 years ago when the Delaware County Health Department encouraged students throughout the county’s schools to recycle aluminum cans to generate funds to pay for materials to build ten kestrel boxes. The ten original nestboxes were constructed by the Delaware County

Background During years past, as I have avoided Route 23 traffic to travel to Delaware State Park to monitor my nestboxes there, I have frequently traveled past Smith Park, located along Troy Road on the west side of Delaware, Ohio. Smith Park’s drainage ditch runs along Troy Road and creates a natural boundary that protects