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. ______________________________________________________________________ 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]