Purple Martin Forum

Yes, 6"x48" or 8"x48" will work. Mine are 6". Dont get schedule 40 ask for thin wall PVC at a plumbing supply company. One 10' piece will give you two guards. Snakes have to wrap around at least twice to hike up a pole, 6" or 8" PVC prevents them to do that, see pi...

If its a public site I would reconsider netting. Someone will definitly get offended if a snake is seen caught in the netting. Someone may even report it. I used netting for years when I lived in east Texas wasn't much of a problem not that many snakes. But here at my rural Louisiana place there are...

Tom, Your Goliad setup is looking awesome! That is a tall pole. I used to have all my set ups fully up but last season I left them just above the guards. Martins had no problem with that and I didn't have to run out and lower setups for storms. Each pole has 6"x48" PVC snake guard but I fo...

Tom, I have the Universal Sparrow Trap for the Goliad and Alamo. I do have to take out the nest tray for it to fit but it works great on sparrows and starlings. Got two starlings this past summer!
Gary

Tom , Yep those are the green plastic coated plant stakes. They fit really snug and cut easy. The cut end I touch up with paint and they last quite a while. I have them on my Alamo too.
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Ive had a Goliad 24 for over 10years now and its 100% full every year! Usually its occupied first then the Alamo then my 3 gourd racks. Yours looks spot on I bet it'll be a popular nesting site next season!!

I have a Lonestar Goliad and thats the trap I use, it fits!! I set it about half way in.....

Anybody have any experience/opinion with the GOURD LEAK STOPPER for the troyer gourd or supergourd? yeah or nay?

Spiderman - have you not seen any physical evidence , ie gourd/housing damage, etc on previous owl attacks?

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Hi K_Adams! I sent an email to you yesterday via your profile not sure if you got it or not. Anyway, the roost in Shreveport has moved, I'll post a seperate post with location and links to some video.

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Thanks all! Special thanks to John Miller who encouraged me to contact the local media!! Thanks Don for posting the link, I was going to post it but have been busy this morning so it kept slipping my mind (whats left of it anyway! lol) What KSLA posted on their website was the 5 o'clock report, the ...

The Shreveport, La roost was featured today on KSLA channel 12 'see it, snap it, send it' segment at 5. An extended version was on at 10, showing a short clip of the interview.

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Whew! glad it working! If you look real close in the center of each tree those dark gray areas are martins all stacked up on each other. Eventually, the tree limbs were bending down with those well fed SYs! There were some ASY males in the mixture and also quite a few starlings (bleech).

By gosh, I think I have it set to public now! Sorry about that was my first time posting on youtube!