Purple Martin Forum

If that’s true- WOW

I built this guard for one of my Martin house poles & I used screws to bring the two ends together. I was just wondering if raccoons would be able to use the protruding screw heads to climb up over the guard . The screws don’t stick out very far at all ,but I was just curious. The guard also wob...

You could check on Amazon , that’s were I bought mine

I’d be interested but I ain’t in Wisconsin

I don’t think that’s too close together, martins don’t mind at all if housing is right next to each other. I’ve seen pictures of thriving colonies and the housing was only a few feet apart.

Calling the PMCA would be a pretty good idea I think

I got a starling every morning for the last three mornings , got my gun sited in pretty accurate . It’s a blast

I live in north central Missouri, I usually put mine up around the beginning of March

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Seth Sensenig

I usually place my mealworm on the porch of my Martin house or inside the compartment , but I wouldn’t be surprised if you’re right Paul. Thankfully I never really had very cold weather when my martins were here , so far .

I never did anything to keep my Purple Martins warm, but I feed them mealworm in cold weather ,and I never had any die of cold weather that I know of. I looked it up and it says they can survive cold weather if they have supplemental food .

Hooray
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Seth

I got mine
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Seth Sensenig

Could you please send some pictures
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Seth Sensenig

Do you know if you’re poles disassemble into sections or not?
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Seth Sensenig

How long are your gourd rack poles? I have a cousin about 2 hours away from you and he acted kind of interested in picking them up but he wondered how long your poles were
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Seth Sensenig

I’m so sorry you had to stop hosting purple martins though

I’m not from that area, I wish I was . I live in Clark MO

This is my best year yet I had 157 eggs 140 Young and 126 successfully fledged. The houses are empty now and it is sooo very quiet ,but I’m already looking forward to next year. The Martin still come around some in the mornings but it’s mostly subadults I figure the older ones are leaving, and I’m s...

Thanks for your answer I’ll leave the eggs in .

So the other day I did a Martin Nest check and I came across a dead female in apartment number 10. She had four eggs, so I took two of them out and put them in apartment number’s 8&9. Since apartment.#8 had had 5 eggs, but1 had gotten kicked out. So far the females in numbers 8 & 9 didn’t ki...