STILL HOPING IN MICHIGAN!
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V & B's Michigan PM's
- Posts: 31
- Joined: Wed Jan 19, 2011 8:43 am
- Location: Michigan,Rogers City
HI ALL! REALLY IMPRESSED WITH ALL THE MARTIN BUZZ! NESTING IS BEEN GOING ON FOR ABOUT A WEEK NOW IN NORTHERN MICHIGAN! VAL AND I HAVE HAD HER SIGHT READY! WITH MARTINS A CITY BLOCK AWAY WERE FINGERS CROSSED.. MY HOUSE HAS ZIP! OUR CAMP T-14 ...ZIP. BUT THE HEATH HOUSE HAS TS! WE SEE MARTINS EVERY MORN AND EVENING, WE HAVE MADE ALLTHE MODS THE CASTLE HOUSES WITH DOUBLE ROOOMS. STARLING RESISTANT ENTRANCES. GUARDS. AND TRAPING-SHOOTING! WOULD LIKE TO HEAR FROM MORE MICHIGAN MARTIN LANDLORDS. AND ANYONE!
Val & Brian
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DakotaLady
- Posts: 654
- Joined: Thu Aug 07, 2008 2:06 pm
- Location: Bismarck, ND
I'm not from Michigan, but I sure hope you have success in attracting martins to your housing. I would think you surely should get martins with a colony only a block away. Good luck.
~Tangula~
2013 - 16 pair, 79 eggs, 71 fledged
2012 - 4 pair, 18 eggs, 18 fledged
2013 - 16 pair, 79 eggs, 71 fledged
2012 - 4 pair, 18 eggs, 18 fledged
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V & B's Michigan PM's
- Posts: 31
- Joined: Wed Jan 19, 2011 8:43 am
- Location: Michigan,Rogers City
Thanks Tangula for the positive note! we've been trying for 3 years now, had a few visitors, but no takers! Theres three colonys in town and the number of martins fluxuate, but never seen to grow to overflowing! just waiting for their no vacancy sign to go up! lol -Brian
Val & Brian
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scottfreidhof
- Posts: 348
- Joined: Fri Sep 21, 2007 7:13 am
- Location: Kentucky/Morehead
If I were a purple martin, I would want to spend the summer eating mayflies along Lake Huron. Do you see a big mayfly hatch up there like the one that occurs on the shallow side of Lake Erie every June? I lived in Jackson Michigan for a few years. I put up an old wooden martin house in May 1993 that was collecting dust in the barn on that property. I still remember the date that three purple martins showed up to investigate the house. It was June 9, 1993.
Hey V & B!
Down here in SE Michigan things are hopping!
I expanded my colony this year from 12 BB gourds to 30 BB gourds all with tunnels and SRE's, and an old aluminum house converted to 6 condos with SRE's.
I did my first nest check of the year on Thursday to find 16 active nest 30+ eggs in 7 of the nest! It also looks like there are a couple of poorly built sy nest started. They seem to think pine straw is sufficient when there are more important things to do!
At my parents' colony, the PM's actually kicked out the ts's and took over two gourds on a shepards hook that we put up for the ts's. We also have more nest in the gourd rack than last year, but have not done a nest chek there yet.
It's looking to be a promising year!
Allen
Monroe, MI
Down here in SE Michigan things are hopping!
I expanded my colony this year from 12 BB gourds to 30 BB gourds all with tunnels and SRE's, and an old aluminum house converted to 6 condos with SRE's.
I did my first nest check of the year on Thursday to find 16 active nest 30+ eggs in 7 of the nest! It also looks like there are a couple of poorly built sy nest started. They seem to think pine straw is sufficient when there are more important things to do!
At my parents' colony, the PM's actually kicked out the ts's and took over two gourds on a shepards hook that we put up for the ts's. We also have more nest in the gourd rack than last year, but have not done a nest chek there yet.
It's looking to be a promising year!
Allen
Monroe, MI