Purple Martin Forum

West Bend is a little north of where I'm at so this answers my question of they younger martins arrival. This is my first year with a house and while I have seen up to four martins flying over my property, none of them seemed to take interest in the martin house. The ones I have seen seemed like adu...

We are in northern IL McHenry county, howdy neighbor! In our experience direction of opening doesn't much matter, but too close to trees does...Some uninformed people insist because it's a bird, housing needs to be near a tree! :roll: Thank you. Have your martins returned? I haven't seen any this y...

Hello - I've recently put up my first martin house in Northern Illinois (McHenry County) and opened it for business yesterday. I haven't seen any martins yet, but hopefully some will arrive. Anyway, the doors - openings - holes - whatever they are called currently face the north and south. Is that c...