Purple Martin Forum

Male and a female will work im thinking. Well done!

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Thomas Maddox wrote: ↑

Sat Mar 29, 2025 11:16 am

Jones, you are a good man. Fight the Good fight! I want more pictures! For some reason, I really like those side walk lights.

I do too, wow do they look good.

Its a thoughtful question, yet i have read some landlords had that freshly paint smell on gourds and they didn't mind one bit. There was an acrylic i used once, (name escapes me), its clear and flexible after drying....yet the smell was terribly strong and it was weeks before I couldnt smell it any ...

Tim, One of our members, flyin-low had a problem with wrens and martin houses, hope he chimes in. But his was more of them pecking martin eggs, anyway more experience with the devils than i. Filled the box! Wow, I wonder why they would fill it brimming? I read they select a number of locations, add ...

I love the goings on. Some make you cringe, most smile. They are still at it. Imagine their bubble will burst when eggs appear.

Tim, Welcome! I'd give it a good shot, why not. Id not be dissuaded by the "location, location, location" science so much. Our location isn't wide open fields, its smack dab in a neighborhood, yet our colony does well. In fact, if someone would have said years ago, "not a chance Tom&q...

Yes, agree with Thomas. Remember the older birds know where they are going, the young birds is who you are after. They are just now arriving, thats who you want. I hope you get them soon!

Well and good! They are in good hands. You are in for the time of your life!!!!!!
Is it time to start thinking about next year and expansions?
Be fun to go around to those old house owners and ask to buy them and turn them into traps or junk em!

Love the goings on, more drama than a hallmark series. One pair has 3 gourds, been watching a week or so to see if they can hold them. Influx of stalled birds since its storming (finally), and they had their work cut out for them. It was the female that led the charge, she would go to one of her gou...

Agree, just about anywhere you put it, they will come. Somehow they seem to like a box placed on a corner, but if you place them, they will come.

Haha, joke is on me though...two misses and waited all day for it yesterday, all day. Was nice though, female cardinal came to drink, hummingbirds and woodpeckers, PMs tearing it up, lots of peace.

I'm going to name him 2 shot. He'll be with me for a long time Phil.

Got him, went home for lunch and the red door to the PMCA nest box trap near the front gourds was closed. He is now languishing in the ground trap in back.
I love those traps.

Wow, yes id say. Peace and harmony about sums it up. Lots and lots of work to get it that way, well done sir. Very well done, and well written.

You have an oasis!!

But they work great. Just another tool in the box. Came close to getting one yesterday, hes been around a bit but just calling from across the street, yesterday he was checking out the house. Got a good full on shot and missed! He didn't know what happened and stayed up there, eventually moved to a ...

Works like a champ doesn't it? I don't like glue traps, but got desperate at my neighbors colony, plopped her egg right smack in the middle of it and got her quick. Male right after. That egg is key.

Good!! Let it rain migrating martins! Be good to hear your updates and observations this season, always look forward to those.

Well that was fast! Hope they come back for you.

Dang hawks, one did a pass on our birds this morning, missed and tried to land in my neighbors tree but I ran out and started clapping off it went with mobs of martins right after.

Yes those spots are my hope to draw them in, and get their attention. Works on starlings. Think if that gent went into production he would be doing very well! Good buy. If he does, let us know please. Iv never addled eggs, or dipped them in oil but heard it works. I do know of one gent who would tak...

I have one male sparrow that is very stubborn - I can't trap him at all. He is too smart. I have emptied his nest out of my Purple Martin T14 house numerous times and continue to check - the last couple days there was none, but he keeps sharing the perch with the Purple Martins; they do not seem to...