Dallas Roost
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shiner
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Does anyone know of the location of the Dallas Roost this year. It has been a couple of years since I visited, but previously it was located at the bowling alley off of Northwest Hwy. Is it still there or has it moved?
Robert Shine
McKinney, Texas
McKinney, Texas
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teridickinson
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Here is a link with the directions to where it's been the last 2-3 years
http://purplemartinlandlordsofnorthtexa ... nts/roost/
I've not seen anything to indicate if they are there this year or not.
I'm confident they are somewhere in that general vicinity because I live about 20 miles north of there and every night between 7-8 we see huge number of martin flying south on the same trajectory we see them on every year.
Hope someone who lives closer will confirm soon.
Teri
http://purplemartinlandlordsofnorthtexa ... nts/roost/
I've not seen anything to indicate if they are there this year or not.
I'm confident they are somewhere in that general vicinity because I live about 20 miles north of there and every night between 7-8 we see huge number of martin flying south on the same trajectory we see them on every year.
Hope someone who lives closer will confirm soon.
Teri
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teridickinson
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Well sadly the page linked above was never updated but the North Texas Group did update a different page on their site to indicate they were having their martin event last weekend. Naturally I saw that after it was over. 
It didn't clearly indicate that the roost was still at the movie theater but it didn't say it had moved, so I decided to go down last night. The roost is there, same place as the last few years and it was HUGE! So if anyone in the DFW area wants to go, you should get on down there soon before they start heading south.
We were worried at first that they had moved because they seemed to streaming over head and seemed to be going back NE of the movie theater and were staging on some wires in that direction near a housing neighbhorhood but by about 8:15 they were literally filling the sky above the theater and by 8:30 they were all settled in. Luckily they are still in back of the parking lot, so hopefully no one will disturb them there.
It didn't clearly indicate that the roost was still at the movie theater but it didn't say it had moved, so I decided to go down last night. The roost is there, same place as the last few years and it was HUGE! So if anyone in the DFW area wants to go, you should get on down there soon before they start heading south.
We were worried at first that they had moved because they seemed to streaming over head and seemed to be going back NE of the movie theater and were staging on some wires in that direction near a housing neighbhorhood but by about 8:15 they were literally filling the sky above the theater and by 8:30 they were all settled in. Luckily they are still in back of the parking lot, so hopefully no one will disturb them there.
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scottfreidhof
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Teri - do you have an address for a business at the roost location? My brother lives in the Dallas area and he would like to see his first martin roost. Thank you.
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teridickinson
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Here's a link to an old thread with insructions for the movie theater location
https://www.purplemartin.org/forum/view ... st#p236157
https://www.purplemartin.org/forum/view ... st#p236157