Purple Martin Forum

Don't give up. The martin's have seen enough sreh in their travels that they will be ok with them. Every house we put up has the sreh's installed with no issues. Martins move right in........good luck.

its all a good sign......good luck and keep your fingers crossed.

thats great news.....we are seeing lots of subbies over here and egg laying is well under way.

Ya its been smokey here in Bonnyville with the wildfires north of us. It does not seem to bother the martins at all. Its been noisy here also with lots of martins showing up. Everyone here is having their houses filling up. No subs yet but we have 11 nests with 15 eggs at our site today. So its look...

The Vortex viper HD is what we use. It comes with a lifetime warranty.

Our martins were early this year and there appears to be a good number of them arriving. no subs yet but still early. but numbers seem to be good..

We are using Bobs design for all the wooden houses up here. The Martins love them and bungalows too.

We have put up 6 houses now and will have 2 more next spring in and around Bonnyville. One new house had eggs in 10 days of being put up and in 2 years they are near full occupancy. Some of the locations are adding second houses. I think we could fill every house we put up. The martins have been nes...

Have you got any kind of supplemental feeding for them. ours are using the feeding station alot right now.

We have wooden bungalow's , wooden houses and plastic insulated gourds. All have martins in them. The bungalows seem to fill first and then its a crap shoot from there. I think they just like a variety and it looks neat...

wild bird store in Edmonton had S&K gourds....just insulate them and they work ok.

Yep we know the feeling......

April57 its propably best to get yourself a feeder like Bob talked about and load it with crickets for now until they get accustomed to eggs and mealworms. In this weather its not a good idea to keep taking down the house as it flushes them out each time. They need all the warmth they can get. we pu...

Hello from Bonnyville Alberta. We are further north and yes there are lots of martins here as well as another 30 km north in Cold Lake. At this point we have a ton of nest building going on and have counted 26 ASY's so far with no subbies yet. We put up a second house this spring and its a good thin...

Congatulations I am sure they will stick around, thats a very nice setup you have. We put up bungalows last year and they all filled up first. We just heard from another want -to-be today and he also got his first pair this morning. Talk about excited. it a great feeling and we wish you all the best...

we had to increase the size to 15/16....

We also lost some nesting TRES a few years ago....HOSP killed the TRES on the nest. I did notice that they mentioned to increase the hole size for TRES to 15/16 of an inch from 7/8. Good luck...be patient when you change it, they will get in.

watch this.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=joOET1fQjxM

Bernie i think i got the idea from one of your prior posts. great idea. i have seen the plastic plate in the wildbird store so they are availiable commercially now. I put a spot from youtube on the forum on how to make these. There should be no reason now to have round holes for your TRES anymore......

have a look at this and i highly recommend using these as they do work.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=joOET1fQjxM