Purple Martin Forum

Tony:

I'll take the house if you still have it. You can message me directly @ [email protected] to work out the details.

Thomas

Last night, I signed up to be a mentor on the PMCA website. After I had logged in and filled out the mentoring form, I happened to go over to the forum and then clicked on 'Messages' to look at some old messages that I had previously send and received and when I clicked on "Messages", the ...

I couldn't get in just now by typing the url purplemartin.org or www.purplemartin.org. I finally got in using the url for the PMCA Shop and then clicked 'forum' to get in.

If there was a cover on the end compartment and open from below, the end compartment might be a little bat house. Or, if the end compartment had a cover on the front and below, it could have just been a single compartment house from some other species of bird.

There was a previous thread that had a lot of useful info on this particular subject... http://www.purplemartin.org/forum/viewt ... light=tres

If you are going to have Tree Swallows, how about put up some gourds with smaller entrances that the TRES can get through but the martins can't, and keep the rest of the gourds/housing closed until the Martins arrive. Then when the martins arrive, the TRES will be safe in their gourds with 1.5"...

Archer: You might be right about the nest box thing. As far as my Martins go, the closest thing I have to a colony is one Tree Swallow that I observed checking out one of my gourds a week ago today, and a neighbor claims to have seen a ASY Male PM trying to figure out how to get through a cresent op...

It took a while to coax the HOSP into my repeating trap, which I received last Friday. I sprinkled seed in the trap and around the trap and all over the outside perch and bait tray shelf. They ate all the seed aound the outside and I had to repeat the process a few times. Today, I found the first 2 ...

HOSP are flocking to my PM house. I ordered one of the "Uncle Blane" repeating traps on Monday and it was waiting on my front porch when I got home from work Friday. They say the hardest part is catching the first one. Keeping my fingers crossed.