Tree swallow nest boxes

Panhandle Road Tree Swallow Grid
Dick Tuttle's successes with nest boxes

 Tree swallows migrate to Ohio in late March or early April, from the Gulf Coast States and  Central and South America. They nest in tree cavities made by woodpeckers and will use nest  boxes like the ones you see in the Tree Swallow Grid on Panhandle Road. Nesting season runs  from May through July. In June, almost every box in the nest box grid will be occupied by a pair  of tree swallows. Go to  https://www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/Tree_Swallow/  for more information  on the life history of tree swallows. 

 Dick Tuttle started the Panhandle Road Grid in 2005 with 27 nest boxes. He built a second grid  on Leonardsburg Road that had 25 nest boxes. In 2018, he combined the two grids because of  problems with flooding at the Leonardsburg Road site and expanded the Panhandle Road Grid  to its current footprint of 57 nest boxes.  

from Journal of the North American Bluebird Society, Winter 2006-2007