Dick Tuttle

Most of the veteran Ospreys are back from Brazil and other wintering spots in South America. After the Osprey team reestablished AC-1 at the northern end of Alum Creek Lake off of Hogback Road on March 13, a male Osprey started adding sticks the following day. However, while I visited the area during the following […]

Dick Tuttle tells us more about how he and Dick Phillips prepare Kestrel nest boxes for a new spring nesting season.

Delaware Township Hall, located at 2590 Liberty Road, is home to fourteen bluebird nestboxes. A fourteen acre lot is home to the hall and the property includes a six acre open woodland named the John Young Park that includes walking trails and other commodities designed for public use. The remaining acreage is two fields of

Seasons Once our native birds have completed their nesting seasons, it is time to winterize boxes for those that stay for any part of the winter, and it is also time to accomplish repairs, relocations, and other preparations for the next season. Boxes are winterized by plugging or closing vents with strips of felt weather

For 77 evenings, between August 6 and October 24, I left my home to count Chimney Swifts that were seeking a nightly roost site as they migrated through Central Ohio on their way to Columbia, Ecuador, Peru and the northwest corner of Brazil. Swifts showed up for 75 counts while two of the 77 evenings

Multiple teams worked in various ways to help our continent’s smallest falcon make the 2018 nesting season successful. In addition to the sparrow hawks fledging 62 young, the season included transferring an active nest with eggs to a new pole; five ornithologists from Ohio Wesleyan University banded kestrels for the first time; four kestrels from