Purple Martin Forum

MartinDave,

Do you do anything at the attachment point of the porch? My wife said something about putting silicon in the gaps inside and out to prevent hanging a talon.

Mark

Electraglideman, Looking at scouting report, it looks like the PMs have landed in Arkansas. Lots of reports today and some yesterday. Showed one report from Arkadelphia yesterday, so you should be seeing them soon. I am thinking that this is about the time (+/-3 or 4 days) we have gotten them since ...

Between Ben Lomond and Frog Level. Actually, just across the creek from the Ben Lomond city limits.

About 12 miles north of Ashdown.

:grin: 4 ASY males arrived. Hope they are ours. Absolutely nothing been on the boxes until the martins arrived, now the BBs are wanting to aggravate. They are wanting to check out the new housing with crescrnts, but have opted so far to enter the old Pioneer box w/round holes. Have seen them perchin...

Consider buying a falconry training manual, and train hawk to capture starlings and sparrows.

floridasunshinegoddess, I admit and concede to improper official counting. Sort of like counting points on deer antlers - in the south, if you can hang a ring on it, it is a point while out west they only count tines coming off of one main branch. What would be a 10 point here is a 4 point there. If...

Roblrich Is it an unaltered Heath IYO?? They are unaltered unless you consider the tin ceiling added on the top house and the addition of sheet metal screws to keep the roof on as altered. You would have lost the bet. Yea, I also noticed there weren't any PMs in the picture. I took it today. It is s...

If these are Heath, you would lose.

I have never bought a Heath house but I assume that I have been using them. My Grandfather gave me four 2 story houses. Not knowing anything about Martins, I thought they were the cat's meow. They did look nice and they did attract Martins. I wound up making a 5 story and 3 story house out of them. ...

Will sulfur powder sprinkled around the pole not keep snakes out?

I'll be the guinea pig on extra vents. I got my multipurpose pole ground stake set. I'll have 2 Coates 4 story WatersEdge Suites on this pole. I'll tape up the extra vents on one house and not the other. They will be oriented so that openings are facing north and south - unless there is a problem wi...

Thanks everybody for the feedback. Maybe the price of steel is driving the length down. E P - Creative Universe Enterprises I'll go ahead and get my groundstake in concrete and ponder on a beefier mounting bracket for the two 4 stories while the concrete is curing. Just got thru putting up a Quad Po...

Don't mention the fact that the 4 story comes with 92 little screws and locknuts for your home assembly pleasure. A good cordless Makita drill and a wife that likes to pull the trigger makes the task a lot easier. "We" put the second house together a lot faster than "I" did the f...

Steve, I just got the same setup you did, but with crescent holes. I've got a question about the pole. How long was your ground stake. My parts list said 57" ground stake, but it came with a 48" stake. In the instructions it talked like it was 61.5". Original length to leave above gro...