Purple Martin Forum

Bummer, I made a 30" guard like for a wood duck box and put a 4" ring of hardware cloth around the perimeter hoping that would do it for my pole. I figured a 5 foot snake might get around just the baffle. I like snakes too and hate to put up netting and have one die out in the sun.

Great pictures! Some delicate little babies there

Looks like I have 2 pair taking up. This pole is at a hobby farm 15 miles from my house where I have honeybees. I went over today and there were 2 birds at first putting on an air show flying around. I was so excited to see them and another pair came up before I left. I was walking in the woods and ...

Thanks for the replies, I probably should do something for predators, as a buddy that got me interested in the birds brother, who also has a birds a few miles from me, had this yellow rat snake on his setup the other day. It was 16 feet straight up the pole and had already gorged itself by the time ...

Newbie to birds in Darlington SC and I put up a pole with gourds March 22nd. I figured, build it and they will come. Had a pair check it out a couple of weeks later and thought I had some takers, but they left. Same thing a few weeks later and they left. Then yesterday ( April 30th ) a pair was chec...