Hope to see you at the Columbus Audubon October 23 monthly program.  Members
and guests are welcome!!



Please visit  http://www.columbusaudubon.org/  to learn more about the many
programs and field trips we offer!



Darlene Sillick

Columbus Audubon, program chair



Tonight's presenter is Dick Tuttle, retired middle school science teacher,
whose conservation projects have fledged more than 40,000 cavity nesting
birds since 1968. As a self-described active conservationist, most of Dick's
projects are individual efforts, but he teams up with a fellow retired
science teacher, Dick Phillips, to perpetuate Delaware County's American
Kestrel Nestbox Project. This effort started in 1991 when the Delaware
County Bird Club partnered with school children and five other entities to
attach ten nestboxes to highway signs. Today, nestboxes hang from 17
electric poles and one free standing mount to help Falco sparverius
successfully reproduce. Since the first "Sparrow Hawk" nest in 1995, more
than 700 kestrels have fledged from the project's boxes wearing numbered leg
bands. Join us to find out what Dick has learned over the last twenty
seasons of effective conservation.

7:00 - 7:15 pm: Our short program will feature a brief, more specialized
presentation by Dick Tuttle on the features that make a nestbox safe and
effective for kestrels. He will also review important factors for monitors
seeking data and for installing boxes for those who seek "nuts and bolts"
information for their own nestbox projects.

Refreshments are available from 7:00 pm onward, and the main program kicks
off at 7:30.

Columbus Audubon public programs are held at the Grange Insurance Audubon
Center, 505 West Whittier Street in the Scioto-Audubon Metro Park on the
Whittier Peninsula.




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