Picture Of Dilapidated Houses

Nanette · Mon Jul 06, 2009 12:27 am

Does anyone have a picture of an old, sparrow-infested, bent pole, doors falling off metal house picture??

Guest · Mon Jul 06, 2009 5:50 am

If you look at my old post, theres only one with pictures..

Louise Chambers · Mon Jul 06, 2009 8:18 am

Nanette, search on Scully - he had loads of photos of the sparrow infested houses he's surveying in San Antonio

Louise

Matt F. · Mon Jul 06, 2009 10:10 am

Louise Chambers wrote:Nanette, search on Scully - he had loads of photos of the sparrow infested houses he's surveying in San Antonio

Louise

Nanette, I took the liberty of finding a few of Mike Scully's threads, that have many photos he's taken of unkept housing.

Here are a few:
http://www.purplemartin.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=14223

http://www.purplemartin.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=11216

http://www.purplemartin.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=10335

And in the following thread, there's a photo of a doorless, Trio Castle, serving as a sparrow hotel.
It's towards the bottom of the thread:
http://www.purplemartin.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=9664

John Miller · Mon Jul 06, 2009 10:48 am

Mike's photos probably are better.

Here's one I took just this morning at a small golf course in Illinois..a few miles from Cahokia Mounds where we have erected a nice gourd rack.

Nanette, If you want the original, email me by PM. This house actually does host martins. I talked to manager of the golf course last season...but got no where.

This house went up in the 70s I think...motivated by mosquito control. I think many of these old Trio houses still host martins, but there's a closing window, I feel, to get them replaced. Otherwise, the martin population will drop.

John

Nanette · Tue Jul 07, 2009 10:14 am

Hi John,

Do you have a full picture of it? Does it have a predator guard? I need a vertical picture which exemplifies "What not to do".

John Miller · Tue Jul 07, 2009 10:36 am

Nanette

I'll look through my files and send you a PM, with my regular email. We can only post and email photos of limited resolution here.

John

Guest · Tue Jul 07, 2009 2:28 pm

How about an old wood house? This one has sat on the shoreline of one of our town's lakes for well over 45 years. Can see straight through it in parts. Sparrow slum, yet unbelievably it still hosts martins.