Purple Martin Forum

Thats great. I also did nest checks. 1 gourd with 1 egg and 26 nest

This is the first year I supplied nesting material (wheat straw) 1" thick. I watched them remove the wheat straw the past couple weeks as gourds became occupied with pairs. Now that nest building has begun they are using the same straw they removed earlier. Guess I created more work for them. W...

David Yes I have SREH on all my houses. Haven't had much problems with starlings entering my houses but they land on top my gourd racks and create havoc. I usually try and take them out with a BB gun but while I am at work the repeating house trap helps. I also have a bait repeating sparrow trap tha...

I used the plans from Chuck Abare's web site. I have only had it up for a week and haven't caught a sparrow yet. But the false floor is made out of thin metal flashing. Very light

Built a repeating Starling trap. Its been set up for a little over a week now. Caught my first Starling this morning. Felt like Christmas

I had a ASY male spend the entire night on the porch of my T14 this year when early arrivals were showing up. I checked several times during the night. The next morning when I left for work he was still there.

Yes they are coming in now. I had 8 more show up today. I even noticed a few more at my neighbors.

I built one of the NB traps today. Took about 5 hours and is real easy to build.

Thanks for all the advice and info. I will definitely try your method to train them to platform feeding. Don't normally have issues with cold weather here but we do have consecutive days of rain and strong winds. would like to be prepared just in case.

This is only my 3rd year of being a landlord. This is the earliest that I have had birds. Never had to worry agout weather and feeding before. I bought crickets last night an put thrm in the refrigerator. This morning I went out and started flinging crickets over there heads. It took a while before ...

Thanks Craig

Yesterday 3 ASY males. Today 3 ASY males and 2 ASY females

Congrats

Welcome

I just joined myself. Its been great and very helpful. Good luck this year

Thanks everyone really appreciate the photo's an input
Now I just need to decide which one's to go with.

I have read an seen pictures of Landlords using pvc 90's to help ventilate there houses. Looking for any tips or advise(size,angle) before i get started. I noticed some are angled down.

Yes very easy to make and I havent had any problems with them.

Dsonyay- the are 6" PVC home made with hinges. They are easily removed for nest checks

Linda- I got my plans from Abare

Thanks everyone TonyG- There are homemade racks. I built them myself. I tried hanging the guards with electrical wire but with the tunnels on them they leaned foward to much. I bought cooling caps and hard mounted the caps then connected the gourds to the cooling caps with wire. Dsonyay- I went to t...