Purple Martin Forum

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I have 30 Hives of bees at two locations. Both places have martins landlords. One is mine and the other is at a friend house. I have seen no risk at either locations. The bird that most worries me is the Summer Tanager. They are known bee eaters. I see them hanging around my bees in early summer and...

s&k manufacturing access ports are now oval. I used the old ones that were round and they worked great with a 4in holesaw. I just cut the hole and screwed the port in the hole and glued it in with lexel. I don't know about the ovals. Anyone have any experience with these ? :???: They still look ...

When i was a young my dad called a King bird a Bee Martin.Today while sitting outside watching our martins a king bird was sitting on a wire nearby.When i saw it fly up and grab something. I could tell it was big so i put my binoculars on it. I was surprised to see a big bumble bee or a carpenter be...

Well explained Doug. Now i can see exactly how it works.

I have chickens and have to remove coons all the time. I use a dukes dog proof coon trap.It catches them around the wrist. Then i relocate them to coon haven. That way they are not a nuisance to someone else.

Thats great. Give a few more details on the trigger.

Well it seems they were a lot slower getting started this year, but i finally have six pair. With one pair in my new T-14.

I'm sorry Ray .Two beautiful girls.

Ray i hope they are as pretty as you are in your picture. Every which one one is you.

How could the mink or owl access the gourd (SREH) and provide such a clean kill and leave the bird inside the gourd with the access port secure? Dennis Dennis an owl can't enter a sreh but a mink can go in a one inch opening. I had one get in my chicken house and kill eleven hens by cutting their t...

Could be a mink. It will eat the head and lick up every drop of blood.

Well good news. I moved my gourd rack closer to the house. Tonight just before dark an ASY male came and zipped in. Hope he stays.

The reason i got so many that first year was that i have some neighbors with crappy housing. I think that pulled them away from them.

When we built our new house about eight years ago it was in middle of cut over. I sold the timber to build the house. Any way i took a bulldozer and pushed back about four acres. The housing that i put up was close to the edge of the cutover about twenty yards witch is now a thicket. It is now about...

In 2008 i started hosting martins and great success with 22 pair that first year. They grew in numbers from there(2009,2010). Then i had a knee replacment and had some compilations (pulmonary embolism) and other things. I was unable to put up my housing in 2011 so i stayed out until this year. I am ...

I used 3'' square tubing with 1/4 '' thick wall . Went down 42'' and used 160 lbs of Quickcrete. The overall length was 20' this left me with 16.5 ft.

Nice looking setup.

The bird house pole is straiter than the stop sign. Maybe you could straiten it too. Looks great.