Dick Tuttle

How are Chimney Swifts doing in our area? To know the answer, we need to collect data by observation. Dick Tuttle reports on roosts (mostly) in Delaware County.

As monitors of a fifty-mile-long roadside nestbox project for American Kestrels (Falco sparverius) in Delaware County, Dick Phillips and I did not know what to expect after a wet and warm winter, but our determined sparrow hawks fledged a record 77 young falcons in 2012 surpassing 76 raised in 2010.

Bluebirds? Ospreys? Why not chickadees? Dick Tuttle tells us how providing nest boxes for Carolina Chickadees is a happy “side effect” from his long experience with other species — and how we can help them as well.

I wrote the following article for the Winter 1999 edition of the Bluebird Monitor, published by the Ohio Bluebird Society. It has been 15 years since a team of volunteers installed three Osprey platforms at Alum Creek Lake. Seventy-three Osprey have fledged from seven platforms standing in Delaware County since 2001. It is time for a look back at how it started.

Dick Tuttle reports on a new approach to deploying nest boxes to benefit both Prothonotary Warblers and Tree Swallows.

Chimney Swift numbers have been declining for a couple of decades, and the number of buildings with towers suitable for Chimney Swift roosts have been declining as well. Now we can provide Chimney Swift roosting sites to help this fascinating species.