Members and guests are welcome to attend the Delaware County Bird Club
meetings on the following 4th Monday evenings of the month.  The 3 programs
below conclude our programs for the 2008/09 season.  If you want to receive
the newsletter in its entirety please email me privately.  Hope to see you
Monday!  Thanks to Jed Burtt for making the DCBC possible!

 

Darlene Sillick

DCBC program coordinator

 


Upcoming Programs


Evening programs of the Delaware County Bird Club are held in room 163
(lower level) of the Conrades Wetherell Science Center at OWU.  They begin
informally at 7:00 p.m. and the formal meeting begins at 7:30 p.m.
Refreshments and beverages are provided prior to the meeting.  The Ohio
Wesleyan University Museum of Zoology is open to guests and a sample of
mystery birds from the museum is available to test your identification
skills.  Parking is available in the Selby Stadium parking lot across Henry
Street from the Science Center or in the lot beside the Science Center on
the campus drive.  

 

Feb.  23         Galápagos: Darwin’s monumental challenge 

                        Jed Burtt

February 12, 2009 marked the 200th anniversary of the birth of Charles
Robert Darwin, author of “The Origin of Species”, a number of other
influential books and arguably the greatest biologist who ever lived.  As a
young man he visited the Galápagos Archipelago and there, so the textbooks
say, he conceived the concept of natural selection.  While the islands
played an important role in Darwin’s thinking, it is not the role described
by most textbooks or ascribed to the islands by popular knowledge.  Their
role in Darwin’s intellectual development is far more subtle and far more
interesting than the myth.  Come to a special commemorative program in which
Jed Burtt will present an alternative interpretation of the contribution of
these islands to Darwin’s thinking, an interpretation that suggests an
important role for the islands, but also supports Darwin’s remarkable
ability to approach problems with an open mind.  Join us for this special
program Galápagos: Darwin’s monumental challenge.

 

March   23   Peckerwoods in paradise

                       Jack M. Stenger

In early January Jack Stenger and long-time birding buddies Paul Wharton and
Bill Stanley left Cincinnati for a week in the pine swamps of the Florida
panhandle.  They spent the next week in kayaks paddling through miles and
miles of pine swamp listening and looking for the Ivory-billed Woodpecker.
What did they see?  What did they hear?  What evidence did they find?  Jack
will present an illustrated lecture based on his trip into the pine swamps
of western Florida.  Be sure to come for refreshments, conversation, and the
usual dead bird quiz.  

April  27       Prothonotary Warbler Conservation at Alum Creek

                         Dick Tuttle

Since 1998, Dick Tuttle has offered special nest structures for Prothonotary
Warblers in Delaware County. He will use slides and props to tell the story
of four habitats and how the yellow swamp warblers are responding best to
his “nest jars” along Alum Creek and Lake south of Kilbourne, Ohio where he
monitors from a canoe. Some of the nests can be watched through spotting
scopes from Hogback Road, a hot spot for photographing and watching nesting
Osprey. An Osprey update will be part of the program.

Tuttle is a retired middle school life science teacher. He is a
forty-three-year veteran of active conservation and his nesting structures
are used by eleven species. Through articles and programs, he promotes
bluebird trails, nest box grids for Tree Swallows, roadside trails for
American Kestrels, Osprey Platforms, and related education projects. He has
recorded detailed data for all nests since 1968, an unbroken history for
more than 37,000 native birds that have fledged from his offerings.  

Dick will also speak the following evening at the Columbus Audubon.  Last
week he was awarded a Conservation Award from Columbus Audubon for his many
contributions in conservation and education. 

 


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