Purple Martin Forum

This guy really likes the Dawn song

I have my fingers crossed they have spent the last three nights

He returned yesterday and brought a bride with him. They spent the night so hopefully this is the year.

I had my first visitor last Sunday 4/8/12 an adult male. Unfortunately I did not expect arrivals this early being that I still had my trap doors in the house for sparrows and he got caught and was trapped in the house for about 3 hours before I realized it. I let him out and he did return on Monday ...

That is an actual heron on the original house!

Well yesterday i finally had two SY-M and one female to my site and spend the entire day on and off. They all returned again (or stay the night) at 5:00 AM. i know the clock is ticking but if they stick around is there still time for a brood. It appears that two of them are a pair but they sure seem...

Well yesterday i finally had two SY-M and one female to my site and spend the entire day on and off. They all returned again (or stay the night) at 5:00 AM. i know the clock is ticking but if they stick around is there still time for a brood. It appears that two of them are a pair but they sure seem...

Well I have not seen a Martin in 16 days so I took the advise of those of you who responded to me and built a T-14 with SREH's this past week. I put it up Saturday in hopes of catching the eye of the returning subbies if nothing else

The nearest tree to the house is over 40' away. i do have nuisance starling however i have done a good job keeping the out. I have "eliminated 6 so far this year and the minute they start to try and nest i clean the box and try and kill the invader. Unfortunately i have a starling free site on ...

Thank you for the reply I have been playing the dawn Song religiously for four years now and does seem to keep the visitors interested. I do know that the nearest active site is about 4 miles away which does not help. I will take a new photo but thought that this one from last year was quite interes...

I have been working at establishing a colony at my home for the last seven years. My site is on a 7 acre man made lake and has great wide open spaces. Three year ago i finally had my first successful nest and three young fledged. shortly after that my house was destroyed in a storm so i had to build...