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 […]
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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
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For 77 evenings, between August 6 and October 24, I left my home to count Chimney Swifts that were seeking a nightly roost site as they migrated through Central Ohio on their way to Columbia, Ecuador, Peru and the northwest corner of Brazil. Swifts showed up for 75 counts while two of the 77 evenings
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It was a brisk day — but the cold didn’t stop us! We had a productive and fun day trimming back and clearing invasive honeysuckle. Although it was in the low 20’s, a dozen people attended and stuck it out for hours as we stacked the cuttings into massive piles. We focused on an area
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Multiple teams worked in various ways to help our continent’s smallest falcon make the 2018 nesting season successful. In addition to the sparrow hawks fledging 62 young, the season included transferring an active nest with eggs to a new pole; five ornithologists from Ohio Wesleyan University banded kestrels for the first time; four kestrels from
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In 2017, two nestbox grids of 25 and 32 boxes, respectively, raised a total of 214 swallows and 12 bluebirds on the Delaware Wildlife Area. In 2018, 25 boxes making up the Leonardsburg Road Grid were moved to join 30 boxes to make a grid of 55 boxes within a five-acre field on the west
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