Purple Martin Forum

Hi Mark, I do know where Shelby is. It's just about 20 minutes from my house. Before my wife passed away, we would go to Shelby twice a year, when the Antique show was in the area. There were 3 venues in Shelby that had some vendors. It's still pretty busy when all of the vendors and their customers...

I was afraid that my one pair of birds from last year didn't survive the migration. To my surprise, they showed up about a week ago and began shopping around for a nest site. I have a 6 cavity house with two gourds hanging beneath them. I also put up 6 super gourds that were given to me when I atten...

In La Grange Tx I had one breading pair last year with 4 fledglings. This year I had one pair show up about 9 days ago. They inspected the 6 unit house and also some gourds that I put up new this year. The male entered three of the gourds which had pine straw in them. After several minutes they both...

My first pair of martins was this last season. I knew nothing about martins except for what I had read. I knew that I wanted to try to attract some. I bought an entry level house, put it up where I thought would be a good location. The only action that I had, at the house, for three years was the da...

Hi, I'm new to the forum. I've been trying for three years to attract some martins to my martin house. This year I was successful and had one breeding pair take up house. I enjoyed watching the nest building. When I finally checked the nest I found three eggs. All hatched. After a while the babies b...