Dick Tuttle

The 2019 fall swift counts took place during 57 evenings at five chimneys, all within the city of Delaware, Ohio. Compared to the previous sixteen years of counting, I started a week or two later due to positive distractions and responsibilities. I started counting on August 16 at the Carlisle Elementary School on the westside. […]

In 1975, I enrolled in a summer course, Environmental Interpretation 610, taught by Dr. Gabe Cherem at the Ohio State University. For one of my assignments, I authored the bluebird pamphlet Hit the Trail for Bluebirds, and after the completion of the course, I took my creation to the Ohio Division of Wildlife’s office in

Maintaining and monitoring nestboxes for Eastern Bluebirds, Tree Swallows, House Wrens, Carolina Chickadees, Tufted Titmice and other species sometimes provides an opportunity to offer a foster home for orphaned nestlings. I, and other bluebirders, are on a list at the Ohio Wildlife Center so when nestbox orphans are presented, the center contacts us to see

Dick Tuttle tells us how warmer, wetter weather is affecting our nesting Tree Swallows and other birds. Is this our future?

Nesting seasons involve many things such as the arrival of adult birds, courtship, selecting and winning nest sites, laying eggs, feeding nestlings, fledging events, etc., but for most conservationists that offer nestboxes to birds, they describe a nesting season as the period when their nestboxes are active with eggs and young. The Delaware County Health

American Kestrels As of June 26, Dick Phillips and I have made nine monitoring trips to 18 kestrel nestboxes that make up the Delaware County Kestrel project that was launched in 1993. Since the project’s first nest in 1996, our continent’s smallest falcons have fledged 1,164 offspring. Five of our latest visits, starting with May