Guests welcome and members expected, hope to see you Monday at the last program till Sept. for the Delaware County Bird Club. Thank you and contact me privately if you would like to receive this newsletter in its entirety. - Darlene Vol. 24 No. 4 Delaware County Bird Club Newsletter April 2009 UPCOMING PROGRAMS Evening programs of the Delaware County Bird Club are held in room 163 of the Conrades Wetherell Science Center. 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. The doors of the building are open until 8:00 p.m. Apr. 27 Prothonotary Warbler Conservation at Alum Creek 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 meeting of the Columbus Audubon at Inniswood Metro Park. ______________________________________________________________________ Ohio-birds mailing list, a service of the Ohio Ornithological Society. Our thanks to Miami University for hosting this mailing list. Additional discussions can be found in our forums, at www.ohiobirds.org/forum/. You can join or leave the list, or change your options, at: http://listserv.muohio.edu/scripts/wa.exe?LIST=OHIO-BIRDS Send questions or comments about the list to: [log in to unmask]