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Chimney Swift - Photo Andy Reago and Chrissy McLarren

2021 Fall Chimney Swift Counts in Delaware County

For the nineteenth consecutive year, I counted migrating Chimney Swifts as I watched seven chimneys at six locations inside the city of Delaware and one additional chimney in Galena, Ohio. Swifts dropped in only six of the eight chimneys as they sought safe vertical walls with rough surfaces to cling to for the night. The

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American Kestrel - Photo Mick Thompson

2021 Delaware Co. Kestrel Nesting Season

The human side of the American Kestrel’s 2021 nesting season involved thirteen trips where Dick Phillips drove more than twenty miles from his home in eastern Delaware County to my home in Delaware, Ohio. Then, after we loaded my fiberglass extension ladder and other materials into Dick’s truck, we traveled more than fifty miles along

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Prothonotary Warbler - Photo Stan Lupo

2021 Prothonotary Warbler Season At Alum Creek Lake

The 2021 PROW season at the northern end of Alum Creek Lake near Kilbourne had its unique moments. I use my extra wide 12-foot Old Town canoe to maintain and monitor 45 nestboxes and nestjars along a one-mile stretch of the lake’s shoreline.   All nest structures are mounted on five-foot-lengths of 1-1/4-inch PVC water pipe.

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