Purple Martin Forum

Last year after trying everything for 5 years to get a pair to nest I had 1adult and 4 subadult males stay, 4 of them were able to get mates and succeed in flegging their young. This year 5 adult males showed up and hung around for several weeks and then got females and set up house keeping . Early ...

7 of my babies tried their wings today ! There was so much activity and noise going on this morning I knew they were going to fledge today . Such a wonderful thing seeing and hearing all of them .Have 8 more to go , sure will miss them when they leave . After 4 years of trying then get 4 nesting pai...

Trying picture again
Jack

Picture ?
Jack

Nest check today revealed 5 hatchlings in 1 nest and 2 in another . Going to try to post a picture
Jack

Trying to post a picture!
Jack

After 5 years of trying everything, the Lord finally allowed me to have these wonderful birds under my care . I have 4 nests with eggs and 2 more pairs working on nests.
Jack

After 5 years of trying everything, the Lord finally allowed me to have these wonderful birds under my care . I have 4 nests with eggs and 2 more pairs working on nests.
Jack

Being a very happy Newbe Myself , while doing a nest check I got a picture with mommie home, I hope I can get it to post
Jack

Jackel350 wrote:My first nest with eggs !

Trying to post picture of nest with eggs, don't know how....

My first nest with eggs !

After 5 years I finally have a nesting pair with 4 eggs , 3 SA pairs with green leaves in their nests and 2 SA males trying to entice a SA female to their gourds. It's been a long struggle but I must have got things right this year . I'm so happy and excited to finally have them here on my place

S&K has all kinds of accessories for their gourds. I'm surprised they didn't come with perches. The tunnels work out nice on them too

Hi John, I often wondered where the Martins went when they left here headed west now I figure it was to your place! Was wondering if you had any martins there last part of August? Saw a very large flock behind and circling around the parking lot at Sam's Club in Chillicothe last weekend, there are a...

Rodger,Thank you for your service as well, It was a dark time in my life

Well I'm sorry to say but the Martins and my Hummingbirds have abandoned me ! Haven't seen a Martin for 3 days now and only 2 hummers are still at feeding stations. Sure going to miss watching all those guys
Jack

Rodger, know what you mean about pics and videos I had to keep cropping that one to get under the size limit and each time it magnifies the pic which starts to blur the image after a while! I had several good videos I wanted to post but couldn't figure out how to change the format from mov to one of...

Rodger , I used a short piece of 4" pvc with a pipe cap to adapt to the 4" OD alum. tubing and screwed it tight. I crank the rack up tight against the cap with a winch system, so far it has has held it in place. I live in rolling hill country of s. e. Ohio so I used a ground sleeve with 2 ...

Thank You Rodger, I'm happy with the rack system it works quite well and should be good to go next year. I had males here thoughout the nesting season trying to get a female to nest but they would just check the area and units out and leave . When I decided to put a new gourd system up I moved about...

Thanks John, I ran across a 4" dia. 22 ft long section of aluminum tubing for 50$ so I had to build a rack system to fit it ! I have really enjoyed watching the Martins these last few weeks. Their aerial maneuvers are great to watch .It seems when you get a flock flying around your bird houses ...