Purple Martin Forum

This season has been all over the place. Too hot too early, to cold too late, repeat, a few times. HUGE owl pacing around the bottom of the poles at night, but never landing on them and then disappearing mid-season. Lots of arguments with an enormous Red Tailed hawk. NO snakes, for the first time in...

Can someone share the info regarding the interactive radar sites they are using to check for roost rings please? My computer died in Nov and only partial recovery. The only one I had from before no longer has the feature of entering dates and times for the loops. We still have martins returning dail...

Thank you Toy. I hope you are having a good martin season. I haven't been able to follow board dealing with health issues.

Please? Anybody? In the past Larry Melcher has been great about sharing info...one on the river in Louisville years back. There was one behind TSC in Nicholasville 2 years ago, Last year I believe I read an old one reformed in Lexington, east side? Anyway, we have used weather underground for years ...

Hi everybody. We have had a robust season here in central KY. I have tried checking radar recently to see where nearby roosts might be forming and have found I can no longer configure the radar site we used in the past to pull up customized time frames. Can ya'll share some of the radar sites you us...

Fantastic James!!!!

So sorry for you guys and the birds. What a blow. It sounds like you have done a great job getting things going. Hoping the others make it and look forward to learning more.

We first had 2 S&K BO 11 with the tunnel, vent cap, etc. Birds didn't use them. Lots of lookers, no takers. Added 2 Troyer vertical, then 2 more Troyers when the martins chose them over the S&K. So, this year only the Troyers were available. We liked the S&K features, especially the lini...

I began with martins in 2012. We started all the nests with slightly older birds made it with an S&K house, knowing nothing about martins at the time. Since the 1st year we put it up (in 2011) we have grown each year. We bought a trendsetter after a couple of years. And last year put up our firs...

GREAT idea! Do we have to change member id ourselves to do this?

Scott, my husband got to go visit this from your directions. Really enjoyed it and was there early enough to get some video. It does appear impressive on the radar and you must have done some great scouting to have found it. Thanks!!! I am very limited in the amount of time I can spend in a car and ...

Thank you so much for this info Scott. And your hunting activities! This is the first one we may be able to get to and view. I also did not know that these different birds roosted together.

Best idea of the day John!

Scott, thanks. I'm so excited.
Janet

Hi Larry. I have been using this "wundermap" interactive map and looking at history because I am usually unable to watch live. I know you will need to copy and paste link and hope it takes you to what I look at. You can change the time frame at the bottom, center. I just looked at the 12 h...

Scott, I was looking at the Renfro one this morning and noticed a huge ring at roughly the intersection of hwy 169 and 1974, east of Nicholasville and south of Lexington. So a good bit NW of Renfro. On the wundermap/interactive they show up if you choose the longer option at the bottom, so currently...

Yes, THANKS for posting this Scott. And Larry Thanks for the info on the one by Ft Knox. Both are too far for us, but I hope many get to enjoy them. We still have some of ours returning at night and they seem to come from the east so we assume they travel toward the I75 corridor roosts.

Scott, have you any news on KY roosts?

A couple of weeks ago we had a mass visit too. Isn't it thrilling! I still hope to one day visit an active roost. Enjoy!

Thank you so much for taking the time. I felt like I could do it today, need be. Great description on "how to". I also think I will add some eggs to the feeding tray just so it is there for training. We did have enough rain today it put a damper on feeding. And we have many fledging or abo...