eastwakefield nh my results for this year

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twins
Posts: 47
Joined: Mon Jul 30, 2007 10:14 am
Location: new hampshire eastwakefield

started with 5 male martins not one female then 1 female showed up end of june one lucky male has a mate and are nesting now the other 4 males seem to be looking for a singles club around the lake any idea why no other females showed up this year 12 gourds and a house with 10 rooms i have thanks
anybody in NH doing purple martin watching and doing house,s and gourds
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DebA
Posts: 1941
Joined: Tue May 04, 2010 7:43 am
Location: Pratt County/Kansas
Martin Colony History: Start 2009 with one pair. Upgraded from S&K houses to two Trendsetter 12's with gourds beneath in 2013. I have experienced job, pet, and parental losses since '13. The Purple Martins lift my spirits and remind me how life continues forward by flying their little selves from Brazil back to my yard. As one forum person once told me, chin up DebA, look at the martins. Danger all around but yet they soar in the sky without a care in the world.

Don't know either. I had a female show up first for the first time. Then I had an overabundance of males. More females came though. I saw where several people posted in the beginning how they had more males. I never once saw the opposite remarked on.

Curious. Makes one wonder if the gender numbers were quite a bit unbalanced this year for whatever reason.

Deb
PMCA MEMBER
Pratt County, Kansas
2016 34 PAIR
2015 27 PAIR
2014 23 PAIR
2013 13 PAIR
2012 6 PAIR
2011 4 PAIR
2010 2 PAIR
2009 1 PAIR
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MamaBruff
Posts: 1466
Joined: Wed Mar 06, 2013 12:21 pm
Location: SW Missouri
Martin Colony History: 2013-2016 Unsuccessful at starting a PM colony. Health problems.
Rehomed all my PM stuff. Good Luck and Best Wishes to All.

Good luck with your brood, may many more purple martins follow to the beautiful sate of New Hampshire!!!
~Mary B~

Lifelong PM Admirer and Nature Enthusiast.
Ruthless trapper of S&S year round.
2013-2016 Unsuccessful at starting a PM colony. Health problems.
Rehomed all my PM stuff. Good Luck and Best Wishes to All.
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Martin man RI
Posts: 440
Joined: Sun Dec 14, 2003 7:04 pm
Location: MA/RI area

Thanks for keeping touch. We have had probably one of the best years
ever. I gained 30 pairs to reach 90 pairs in Barrington and gained 14 more
in Rehoboth MA. 47 pairs there. four banded birds in Barrington that is weird
how so few females returned. I wonder if they got trapped here and never
returned to there northern colony. A colony at Parker river in northeast MA
has gone over to all gourds finally after 10 years of my nagging them.
I will send you many next spring dont worry about anything.
Ray
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MamaBruff
Posts: 1466
Joined: Wed Mar 06, 2013 12:21 pm
Location: SW Missouri
Martin Colony History: 2013-2016 Unsuccessful at starting a PM colony. Health problems.
Rehomed all my PM stuff. Good Luck and Best Wishes to All.

Well I have seen a shortage of females here in SW MO as well. Otherwise I would have 5 pair nesting this year :???: ... So with that, I am hoping my 2 precious babes are girls... Miss Biggy and Little Missy!
~Mary B~

Lifelong PM Admirer and Nature Enthusiast.
Ruthless trapper of S&S year round.
2013-2016 Unsuccessful at starting a PM colony. Health problems.
Rehomed all my PM stuff. Good Luck and Best Wishes to All.
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Martin man RI
Posts: 440
Joined: Sun Dec 14, 2003 7:04 pm
Location: MA/RI area

Hi Twins
They made a rare discovery in your state a new martin colony in Seabrook
the birds were in old wooden box's look on the NH state rare bird alert.
There are pictures as well. There are four colony's now in the state.
I hope people do something and add more new units.
Ray
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