Fifty-one seasons ago I read that nestboxes should be spaced at least one hundred yards from other boxes in order for our Eastern Bluebirds to nest in peace. My first season in 1968 is a long time ago and you would expect that by now, I would have seen everything there is to see as […]
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Smith Park is located along Troy Road on Delaware, Ohio’s west side. Twenty nestboxes now stand 25 yards apart in a drainage ditch that parallels the road for 400 yards before it turns east into a pond. The nestbox trail was established in 2016 with its first eight boxes, and twelve boxes were added before
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Early July is not the best time to report on avian nesting seasons since most species have not finished their seasonal use of nestboxes, nestjars, and nest platforms. Only Carolina Chickadees have completed their nesting season with four successful nests that produced 23 offspring after eight attempts with eggs. This was a terrible year for chickadees when
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I clicked on the May 2018 Song Sparrow newsletter email and scrolled through the events. Interesting. A BioBlitz at Calamus Swamp Preserve, 6:00 am to midnight, May 26. The purpose was to collect data for the preserve and I get jazzed being a citizen scientist.
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Plastics are great things for a lot of reasons and a lot of uses. But plastic can be a problem, and even a death sentence, for birds. Birds get tangled — and even strangled — in plastic strings, ribbons, and lines. Birds mistakenly eat plastic and sicken or even die as a result. Plastics and
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At the recent national Audubon board meeting, Audubon presented its “Conservation Hero” award to Ohio’s Senator Rob Portman. Senator Portman was one of over a dozen public officials honored for their actions to protect birds and habitat. In presenting the award, Audubon president David Yarnold noted that Portman has worked to protect our naitional parks,
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