A unique kestrel adventure began on October 22, 2014 when I received an email from Donna Schwab, Assistant Wildlife Management Supervisor, ODNR, Division of Wildlife. Donna had presented me with contact information for Kathy Wolboldt, Case Manager at the London Correctional Instition (LoCI), who was in the early stages of developing the PROOF program. Kathy […]
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On August 8, 2016, I set out to start my fourteenth annual fall Chimney Swift count as swifts select local chimneys for nightly roosting as they work their way to their winter homes in Columbia, Ecuador, Peru, and the northwest corner of Brazil. I had previously downloaded a Sun Rise/Set Table from the Astronomical Applications
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Dick Phillips and I maintain and monitor 18 boxes of a project that started 25 years ago when the Delaware County Health Department encouraged students throughout the county’s schools to recycle aluminum cans to generate funds to pay for materials to build ten kestrel boxes. The ten original nestboxes were constructed by the Delaware County
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Background During years past, as I have avoided Route 23 traffic to travel to Delaware State Park to monitor my nestboxes there, I have frequently traveled past Smith Park, located along Troy Road on the west side of Delaware, Ohio. Smith Park’s drainage ditch runs along Troy Road and creates a natural boundary that protects
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Every year, on one of my nestbox trails, I usually give a nickname to an individual parent bird that shows unique behavioral characteristics. All of these nicknames have had affectionate intentions, but not all names have been worthy of publication. I have written about some, such as “My Little Chickadee” that used to cuss me
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Disappointment, success, and new ideas made my efforts to help golden swamp warblers challenging in 2016. As I have reported before, my project of 45 nestjars and nestboxes is located on Alum Creek Lake along its northern and western shores opposite Hogback Road in Delaware County southeast of the small village of Kilbourne. Pipe posts
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