Purple Martin Forum

I have been wondering if the pets are any kind of deterrent to the martins coming in. My pets are in a fenced area a good 100 feet from my T14.

Keep in touch and as you can see, everyone here in the forum will help you with what ever pops up.

Rob I have been looking for someone in WV. to compare notes with. I am glad you joined. I have a T-14 and no luck yet either. I live in Berkeley Springs WV. Last year I had two pairs of tree swallows move into the T-14. I let them stay and glad I did. But this year I put up separate blue bird houses...

I am interested in the player. Is it a cd player. I bought a cd from PMCA shop but did not get a player.

I spotted what I thought was a Purple Martin on the fence beside the tree swallow house I put up. It flew away and never came back. I thought I would look up the Scout report and see if there were anymore in my area. Surprise!!! If you look at the State of West Virginia on the map, there are very fe...

I have read a lot of the forum and have not seen any discussion on where the males roost. Do they stay in the nest with the young and female.

That house looks great. I am new to this and was just wandering about the size of the opening to the nest. Is the opening as large as it looks. Can starlings get in easily.

Will I be making a mistake at the beginning if I only want a T-14 house. I do not want to take care of any more Purple martins than what can live in the house. Will this be a problem for future martins coming back.

Hello to all: Last year I put a house up and had a couple of what I thought were purple martins. Over the winter I really dove into the society to see what I needed to know. Well, the birds I thought were martins are tree swallows. I built a new T-14 martin house, and had all the holes blocked off u...