In 2017, two nestbox grids of 25 and 32 boxes, respectively, raised a total of 214 swallows and 12 bluebirds on the Delaware Wildlife Area. In 2018, 25 boxes making up the Leonardsburg Road Grid were moved to join 30 boxes to make a grid of 55 boxes within a five-acre field on the west […]
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Fifty-one seasons ago I read that nestboxes should be spaced at least one hundred yards from other boxes in order for our Eastern Bluebirds to nest in peace. My first season in 1968 is a long time ago and you would expect that by now, I would have seen everything there is to see as
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Smith Park is located along Troy Road on Delaware, Ohio’s west side. Twenty nestboxes now stand 25 yards apart in a drainage ditch that parallels the road for 400 yards before it turns east into a pond. The nestbox trail was established in 2016 with its first eight boxes, and twelve boxes were added before
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Early July is not the best time to report on avian nesting seasons since most species have not finished their seasonal use of nestboxes, nestjars, and nest platforms. Only Carolina Chickadees have completed their nesting season with four successful nests that produced 23 offspring after eight attempts with eggs. This was a terrible year for chickadees when
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Panhandle Road Grid (PRG) Update Fifty-five nestboxes stand in ten rows in a field along the west side of Panhandle Road in the Delaware Wildlife Area. The sun’s rays have bleached their baffles white which makes the view of 25 and 22 yard box spacings impressive. White baffles make it easy to locate nestboxes while protecting
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Time passing promises change, especially when it involves industrious beavers and an aging body. At the end of the 2004 nesting season, I dismantled three Eastern Bluebird and Tree Swallow nestbox trails for different reasons, and before the 2005 season, all of the boxes were reinstalled as two nestbox grids for Tree Swallows on the
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