Cattail Memories On May 3, I was monitoring my twenty nestboxes in Smith Park’s drainage ditch along Troy Road, and as I descended into the ditch in front of Box-12, a Red-winged Blackbird flew straight up from its nest located less than several feet away from the nestbox. At first, I did not see the […]
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On July 8, 2020, I drove to Alum Creek to check on the Osprey families on Platforms AC-1 and AC-2. Three fish hawk nestlings were standing with one their parents on AC-2 and they looked quite dignified as their feathers are about ready for them to start practicing for first flights. I returned to my
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Join Dr Kelly Williams and her group at Ohio University for a virtual tour of their nestbox trail for cavity-nesting birds in Athens.
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On April 11, Dick Phillips and I made our second round of checking eighteen American Kestrel nestboxes in the northern third of Delaware County, Ohio. The fifty-mile route on country roads is today’s version of nestboxes that were first made available before the 1993 season, and the first successful nest that followed in 1995. Since
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Wildlife habitats vary greatly and will ultimately determine how a parcel of our earth is used and by whom. I will describe two different habitats and how they were used once I installed bluebird nestboxes to mostly attract Tree Swallows while knowing that bluebirds would still claim nestboxes at their instinctual distances from members of
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Are you sheltering in place — and getting pretty bored? Or do you still go to work — but need some help relaxing? Check out the animal “webcams” listed by our friends at Holbrook Travel! Of the five live video feeds listed there, two are for the birds. Hint: the Panama Fruit Feeder site is a
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