Purple Martin Forum

I am interested is some free or cheap used Martin equipment. I had a MPP pole with two 8 room watersedge and 4 gourds. Along with a 12 gourd rack that I was not able to recover on my in-laws place after a divorce Ex wife made me take down by AAA-16 and lone star gourd setup from dripping springs. No...

First report in Texas today from Porter.
Seems to match up pretty well with his colony age/first sighting dates.

I've been watching these scout reports for over 20 years People don't spot a martin then run straight to there computer that very second to report I have seen reports come in up to 2 weeks later based on their sighting date The best gauge I have found is to find older colonies in your state. Do a se...

How close are you to a river, lake or pond?

Welcome back Florida Sunshine Goddess!!!

You should be fine. When I expanded a former site the previous years Martin checked out my gourd rack too along with the original Alamo house I had set up. Should be two more weeks here until mine arrive back.

Bumping back to top for people to check out again. New home owner not interested in martins.

Responded to your email.

End of martin season has come and I have 3 rack systems to sell. Package #1 is $150.00 S&K 2 3/8 easy lift pole converted to a winch and pulley system with multi-house rack accessory for 2 houses which are included house #1 is a Trio MSS12 that has the hole on the roof patched to make it a M12K....

I bought mine used a few years back. I wouldwould recommendrecommend getting the cable and winch upgrade. It is my favorite rack of the ones i have

I had two martins friday and counted eight today landing on my gourd racks. Four are diffently lasts years birds. Suppose to be a nice sunny week coming up after our morning rain storm. It was nice to relax under the shade tree and watch them this afternoon.

I have three checking out my rack right now

Hey Emil,
I just saw that Richmond was hit with a tornado yesterday morning.
Are you ok?
A.P.

I have been watching migration patterns for over 10 years now.
They seem to migrate by tail winds and food source.

check out this map for tail winds. Everything is shut down right now.

https://earth.nullschool.net/#current/w ... 849,28.913

Congrats Emil!
I was wondering how many you were up to know.

That's awesome. Please send pics when you get a chance. About 3 more weeks here.

I see you are in kerrville. I drove through there a couple of weeks ago to pick up a mower just south on hwy 16.

Last day was june 19, 2015
Google naturaline gourd out of business.
You will see a blog that has a good writeup on it.
I cant put in the url here on the forum as they sell some of the same items in the pmca store.

I have a few. They are kinda a pain to do nest observation as you have to take the front entrance out and look sideways. There are some people on the forum that have taken two back halves and modified a tunnel in the front and a better access port from the upper side. There not the best gourds but n...

I looked over the instructions at the manufacturing web site and agree with you that there is not any good pictures on how to connect the ultimate gourd rack. This is the one with the circle right? I did some google searching and see some good eye bolt suggestions like this: https://www.google.com/s...