Purple Martin Forum

1st off great site. Secondly thanks for the information on a new way to raise and lower the house. Very cool.

Congrats. Must be a great feeling.

Love gopro camera's. Was going to try and do the same thing this year. Good luck and post some HD video when you get it done.

That's though. I have a trendsetter too. Mine doesn't have wing guards. Is that something I can/should add? How would I add them?

I love this picture too. Lake, yard, dog, and PM's do it for me.

Two weeks ago I bought 4 troyer gourds with round entrances to attached to my trendsetter 12 house. I never see Starlings so I thought I was good to go with round entrances. I put the gourds up, go away for 5 days, come back to 4 starlings sitting on my house 2 gourds with completely filled nest the...

I have a very similiar setup and story as yours. I went with the Troyer vertical gourds on the Trendsetter 12. House sparrows are a lot to handle. I'm only at the site one to two days a week so I can only trap the day I'm there. The trap for the Trensetter house is terrible. Never works. They always...

Wow. I feel like a fool. haha Sorry about that.

It didnt say vertical gourd anywhere in the description or on my receipt.

Learning something new everyday.

Lousie, I'm not really sure which I have... I have the one labeled "Troyer Gourd" on the PMCA site. I don't have the one labled "Troyer Horizontal Gourd". http://shop.purplemartin.org/Troyer_Gourds-list.aspx I also don't see the veritcal gourds on the PMCA site in the Troyer Gour...

Dave, Thanks for the reply.

I just realized I bought the original Troyer Gourd. Not the Horizontal. Should I exchange them? Pro's/cons?

I'll look into how you mounted yours. Do the gourds just slide onto the rods?

Do you fill yours with pine needles to be level with the entrance?

Just picked up 4 Troyer gourds to hang from my Trendsetter 12. (Anyone have a picture of this setup?) I got the hanging arms and gourds from the PMCA store. They recommended them for being on Lake Michigan. They also recommended round holes at first (to get the colony going), then to switch them to ...

Great video. I'm going to have my gf watch it to try and learn more. Liking the new social media aspect of the PMCA!

(Hoping 2013 is my year!)

Doug if you get another chance to toss crickets. (Hopefully you won't need to) take a video and post it to youtube. I have only seen one video posted to youtube tossing crickets. I think it was Larry Merchant.

It's probably too late but you guys should include a page with the nest check spead sheet. So people can rip/cut it out. Maybe you would bump your submissions that way. I can't remember seeing one in the past update mags. I know it's online and people can print it out but it just might make it a lit...

Congrats! I'm still waiting in SW Michigan. I'm directly on Lake Michigan and I'm thinking the cold wind off the lake is keeping them inland a few miles.

Wondering if anyone has them directly on Lake Michigan yet?

Very cool. I bookmarked it! Can't tell which direction they face at night? Always looking out the opening or no?

Nice work. I wish I had purple martins at my school growing up.

Those are some great pics! Wish we had a meet up here in Chicago sometime.

Looks like he was a great guy. Fun to see another Chicago area PM lover.

Wow all these houses are amazing. Must feel great to have built it by hand. I hope you all have a great season. You deserve it.