Purple Martin Forum

Place a couple PM decoys on top of the housing it has two purposes to attract PM and to help with hawk or owl attacks. Smear mud on the entrances of both the goirds and the house to make it look a little lived in. Pine needles are a must as well. But in my the most valuable asset to a new landlord ...

Good morning, I’m a new landlord to the PM community (been one for other species and very successful with Bluebirds) and decided to venture into the PM arena. I built and installed the house pictured in April of this year. Evicted several House Sparrow attempts, but was not successful at drawing PM’...