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 […]
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Five basic adaptations help our Carolina Chickadees (and their close cousins, the Tufted Titmouse) get through the kind of brutal cold we recently experienced. Like many birds, chickadees and titmice fluff-out their feathers in a cold snap, which makes them look fat but adds many layers of insulating air between their bodies and the cold. Studies
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Read about the latest project at Calamus Swamp: completing reconstruction of two stairway connectors from the Calamus loop trail to the Pickaway County Parks and Recreation Rail Trail at the south end of the preserve.
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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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Columbus Audubon’s Own Nature Preserve This fall has been a busy time at Calamus Swamp, Columbus Audubon’s own nature preserve located just west of Circleville. Volunteers, Boy Scouts, and many from Columbus Audubon have been working hard on several projects. Here’s one: Trail Improvement Eagle Scout Project Several months ago, we were approached by Pickaway
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Our friends at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology have released a study on the combined effects of climate change and habitat loss for the future of birds. In particular, the study looked at both summer and winter habitats for 21 species that breed in the eastern US and winter in Central or South America. The
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