Purple Martin Forum

Attracting martins has proven to be quite frustrating. After years of trying to attract some and playing the Dawnsong I finally got an ASY male to adopt the site and he stayed around for about a week. He attracted a female who went into his compartment and both would fly around above the house feedi...

Sorry you are having trouble downloading the file. Please be sure to use the link at the very top of the post. The second link below it will not work anymore. I just tried the link and it seems to work OK. Please let me know if you are still having trouble. I tried to attach the file directly to the...

No need to buy Microsoft Excel, at least not if you have a free Microsoft account. Microsoft has what they call Web Apps which are slightly scaled down versions of the normal programs. The Prognosticator should work with the Excel free web app. Check the following link for details: https://www.micro...

NEW UPDATED VERSION AVAILABLE! Use the following URL to download a corrected version of my Purple Martin Prognosticator. It corrects some calculation errors primarily on the Summary Page. My apologies to those who have already downloaded the original version below. Update 2/17/21: Try this link: htt...

NEW UPDATED VERSION AVAILABLE! Use the following URL to download a corrected version of my Purple Martin Prognosticator. It corrects some calculation errors primarily on the Summary Page. My apologies to those who have already downloaded the original version below. New version can be found at: https...

After a long period of inactivity I am finally posting my latest version of the Purple Martin Prognosticator that accommodates data up until 2020. The spreadsheet is freely avaialble and can be downloaded from the following link: https://1drv.ms/x/s!AjAj8HbqHkUPjuk7J2gGEpt_UrtOOQ . You will need a M...

Glad to hear the ASY's are still coming in and the SY's will be arriving soon. I'm in Bloomington, IN so not far from you and trying to get a colony established. Please post when the SY's start to arrive so I can keep a closer lookout. Good luck with your colony this year.

Thanks for all the replies. All the comments seem to make sense. I agree Dennis that the Dawnsong is really effective in bringing them in but this ASY male pays no attention to it which I think is a good sign. He goes for the gourd pole, not the aluminum house that has the speaker under it. Just a b...

Yesterday (Father's Day) I received what possibly might be one of the best gifts ever. We came home from church and an ASY pair of martins were sitting on the peak of my roof. The female flew off but the male stayed around a long time, all afternoon, and ignored my Trio house with gourds hanging fro...

Glad you are going to try both of them Jeff. The older version of the Martin Prognosticator can be found out http://cipmaweb.org/downloads.htm .

Feel free to download and take a look as it will give you a flavor of what the new one will do.

Hope to publish the next version within a couple weeks.

This is to announce the availability of a new Electronic Bluebird Prognosticator similar to my Electronic Purple Martin Prognosticator previously available. The Electronic Bluebird Prognosticator was developed by me as an additional method for bluebird enthusiasts to maintain accurate records of the...

Thanks for the response, BigT. I haven't moved yet but it is good to know that there are active colonies and martin enthusiasts in west central Ohio. If we move I will definitely try to contact you. Not sure what a Buckeye is, but I've been in Indiana for 12 years and still don't know what a Hoosier...

There is a possibility I may be relocating to the Dayton/Vandalia/Tipp City area in Ohio and was just wondering if there were any landlords or martin organizations in the area to network with.

Roger lee

SY's typically show up around the 1st of May in central Indiana so it is way early. Not even all of the ASY's have arrived yet. Just try to be patient.

Malachy,
Do you have the Model Number of the Sony player and where you purchased it?
Thanks

I have updated the geocoding of the Martin Monitor Database Google Map of the colony sites. You can check it out at http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?ie=UTF8&hl=en&msa=0&msid=118291837283155537192.0004410e03064f71b80a3&ll=33.979809,-84.199219&spn=23.305444,40.869141&z=5&om=1...

Jerry, My apologies again, didn't realize that ther were martins that far west. I'm travelling the holidays but will fix it when I return around the 29th and wll post to let you know. Craig, Yes I could enable security and am looking for an easy way. I initally wanted tro try it without, and then tw...

To Ray Marr: Thanks for using the Martin Monitor database. No, you did nothing wrong. I have to geocode the data and post the sites manually on the google map. I'll get to it as soon as I can. Thanks to all who have participated in the Martin Monitor database so far. We still need more, however, to ...

Hi James, Yes I did recieve your picture. If you go to the maps page you should see your site and picture and also the other colonies signed up so far. Jerry, You should be able to select Ontario, Quebec, or Mew Brunswick as a "State" but give me one more day to upload the code for Canada ...

Wyatt, You can go to this page http://cipmaweb.org/ASP/colony_add.asp or on the blue navigation bar at the top of the entry pages select 'Colony Menu' and then "Add New Colony'. That wil get you back to see the regions. Tim, Don't worry about it, I went back and corrected it. No harm done. Go a...