Purple Martin Forum

While my pain is not as great as yours I have went from 5 pairs hoping for 10 this year to only 2 pairs, better than nothing yes, but after investing and installing a 24 gourd deluxe houses from a coates house with a few gourds, seems odd and disappointing to me! you do still have into June! especia...

Louise, Thank you for your observations it seems half or more of landlords have not seen there normal/average number of birds at this time. I know last year I had 5 pairs of birds, to date I only have 1 pair routinely staying the night. While my neighbors with older birds and more established coloni...

Thanks M.Stephens that is great news that birds should still be coming!!! Still a lot of space available on my new 24 gourd rack!!!

DakotaLady, thanks I hope they make it as well, it does seem odd but hopefully they are just taking there sweat time to make it back! I'm glad your doing so well but it seems that lots of PM landlords are not seeing the birds until 2 to 3 weeks latter if they ever see them. So at this point just gla...

Good to hear because the numbers seem to be down on the east coast at least for me. So it's good news to hear that late arrivals are still coming north!

Thanks send them our way!

I had 5 active pairs last year around this time and this year I only have one! I'm somewhat concerned they did not make it during the winter but I keep hearing on this board that it is a slow migration. I can confirm from last year that it has been a very cold spring, so im just hopefully everything...

I had 5 active pairs last year around this time and this year I only have one! I'm somewhat concerned they did not make it during the winter but I keep hearing on this board that it is a slow migration. I can confirm from last year that it has been a very cold spring, so im just hopefully everything...