Richard and Diane Van Vleck Personal Pages
The Home Habitat

2001 - 2011 Nestbox Video

2022 update - Return of the barn owls
2021 Chimney Swift tower success!!!
2020 Barn Swallow nesting	Barn swallow nest cups
2019 Barn Swallows and Black Rat Snakes
2018 - The Barnyard Balance of Nature Goes Awry Black rat snakes vs barn swallows, Northern flickers, kestrels and others
2018 Purple Martin preference for clam shells
2017 - Return of the Monarchs!	2017 Purple Martin prey photos
2010 - 2016 Northern flicker nestings	2014 house wren gourd use
2014 - A dramatic loss of many types of insects
2019-2020 Purple Martin nesting	2014 barn owl nesting - prey study
A new barn swallow shelter for 2013	2010 barn owl nesting
2010 Update	2016-2017 Kestrel nestings
Starling traps	Using blinds in the home habitat
Providing perches for birds	Providing snags for wildlife
The ugly young maple	2001 - 2013 nest cams
Use of tomato cages as hunting perches by insectivorous song birds
Vultures, beetles and the resurrection of life

Species of interest in our yard - photos and articles
barn owl	American kestrel	purple martin	barn swallow	Eastern bluebird
tufted titmouse	Eastern phoebe	yellow shafted flicker	tree swallow	chimney swift
house wren	big brown bat	Carolina wren	brown thrasher	catbird
Willow flycatcher		cedar waxwing	Northern mockingbird
Blue-gray gnatcatcher		turkey vulture	Yellow warbler	Acadian flycatcher