Purple Martin Forum

Took this picture 3/24/2019 and this evening I had 2 ASY males come and One female. Now today I have 3 pairs 3/25/2019.

67-pairs
311- eggs
258-Hatched so far
For you Guys and Gals just getting started remember I only had 1 pair in 2012 and fledged 3 young. Love My Martins.

CONGRATULATIONS KYLER. Sharon I hope you get Birds soon. I tried for Years before I got my first pair but the sky is the limit now. Praying for you to get birds Sharon as I know you have been trying for a while. Dave Woofter Ohio Bluetick

Thanks Klyer. I am not going to mess with it. Took me 2 months to get on the forum again because of my code not working and now when I go to projectmatinwatch it wants another code to get on there that's different from the forum. THIS YEAR I HAVE 67 PAIRS WITH 311 EGGS AND SO FAR 141 OF THE 311 EGGS...

Where do you post nest checks? I have 67 pairs now with 141 baby birds and 170 eggs on 6/17/2016. Bluetick

Good luck to Sharon and Mitch. It took me a long time to get Martins but I have caught fire in this my 5th year of having them. I may put up one more gourd rack. I love the pair in the single gourd. Dave

This is a picture of my colony as the birds go about their daily activity. Bluetick

Thanks everyone. Bluetick LOVE MY BIRDS.

http://i256.photobucket.com/albums/hh197/Davidwoofter/DSCN9982%201_zpsdui9zioy.jpg I wanted to tell this story and then I will quit posting for a while. I had a pair of tree swallows trying to build in gourd 46 so I tried to move them 75 feet from the martin colony. I drove this piece of pipe in th...

Another gourd rack full up. I haven't been able to get on the pmca site all year and my Friend Louise fixed it today. Thank You. Bluetick

This gourd rack is also full up. Bluetick

This is the first Martin to come to my Colony this year on March 26th. Took this picture of him the 4th of April. Came to gourd 13 and that rack is also full. Bluetick

This is the old pipe gourd rack I bought from pmca back in 2001. It's also full up. Great Year so far. Bluetick

This was the first gourd rack I had to fill up in 2016. In 2012 I only had one pair of Martins and fledged 3 birds. In 2016 so far I have 65 pairs. Love My Birds. Bluetick

Diane I meant to put this under My final count to answer your question. Hope you see it. Dave

Diane I hit New Topic instead of post a reply so I answered your Question under nest checks. Sorry. Bluetick Dave

I wear my Coon hunting cap light. I have a long pencil with a big eraser I put on it to move and put the leaves back with and I have the paper work done for my wife to sit in a chair and write what I tell her. That's how I do it but the birds watch me too. Some times they watch for a while then some...

% wise I didn't do near as good as last year but my pairs were up and bird count up. I had 47 pair. 173 eggs. Fledged 154. Had 9 eggs didn't hatch and removed 10 dead birds in the cold wet weather we had early. Good Year with the weather but not a great year. I had two gourds with one egg each that ...

Sharon I did a lot of different things over the years before I got Birds. I wrote all about my road to success in the winter 2015 Purple Martin Update. Once I got into the second year with 14 pair I caught fire this year. I hope to get up to about 60 to 70 pair and then stay around that. It's been a...

Thanks Sharon. It took me a long time to get started but in four years I have went from one pair in 2012 to 45 pair this year. I really had 47 nests with at least one egg in them but I know two nests with one egg was never set on so I didn't count them two. Good luck next year. Dave