Tree swallows

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Tengai
Posts: 68
Joined: Tue Apr 04, 2017 9:36 am
Location: Townsend, DE
Martin Colony History: 2017 first year

No martins yet but saw the first tree swallows yesterday
They can’t be far behind!
Phil
Townsend DE
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Dan G
Posts: 446
Joined: Thu Jun 12, 2014 7:52 pm
Location: PA/Bellefonte
Martin Colony History: Several colonies with in 6 mile radius.
Have had visitor every year 2014-24.
Two large trees removed in fall 2024 and moved T-14 to a more open location.
2025- 1 SY pair. Fledged 2.

Being 'martinless', i do like watching the tree swallows and look forward to their return. I'm in central PA, so, probably a week or two behind you. I try to offer them housing within the parameters of the tree swallow protocol.
I remember the first spring when i put my T14 up. 2014. I had a pair of tree swallows that took and instant interest. Being so uneducated at the time, i thought i had martins. Oops. Ive learned alot since then. Mostly from this forum and its members. But I'm still martinless.
Bellefonte PA
2014, 1st year-a few lookers, no nests
2015-23. Visitors each year. But no pairs.
2024- most active year. 2-4 SY male’s hang out most days.
2025, 1 SY pair. 2 eggs, 2 fledged!! Other martins visited daily.
Still eliminating starlings and sparrows.
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terrapincove
Posts: 366
Joined: Fri Jan 22, 2010 4:06 pm
Location: Maurice River, Southern NJ
Martin Colony History: Well established 90 cavity colony. Mostly plastic gourds with some custom cedar houses atop pilings out over the river. We live stream the activity on our website https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCXKqSW ... Ph2tywu4eg

We are on the Maurice River. The Maurice is brackish and tidal. It meets the Delaware bay about three miles down at East Point, NJ. The area is remote and consists of dense marshland and swamp. Dragonflies abound.

Swallows arrive in mid August and finish nesting mid July. There is a large annual roost in mid August upriver a few miles at Mauricetown.

Wow, you're further north than Terrapin Cove on the Maurice River in Southern NJ. I better keep my eyes peeled. Thanks for the sighting.
Good luck Purple Martin Landlords.

Terrapin Cove

Always Live https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCXKqSW ... Ph2tywu4eg
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James Strickland FL
Posts: 2249
Joined: Thu Nov 13, 2003 8:04 pm
Location: Reidsville NC
Martin Colony History: 2017 Had a lot visitors no Matins nesting, hoping 2018 will be different.
2018 Had 1 pair
2019 had 30 pair

TS showed up today in Wentworth NC and that mean that the Martins are not far behind.
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Dave Reynolds
Posts: 2441
Joined: Mon Jan 31, 2011 4:35 pm
Location: Little Hocking, Oh.
Martin Colony History: Satellite Site “Oxbow Golf Course”..
2018 - 15 Pair, 36 Fledged
2019 - 26 Pair, 97 Fledged
2020 - 30 Pair, 137 Fledged
2021 - 30 Pair, 144 Fledged
2022 - 27 Pair, 125 Fledged
2023 - 31 Pair, 130 Fledged
2024 - 41 Pair, 198 Fledged
2025 - 44 Pair, 168 Fledged

Home Site "Little Hocking, Ohio".
2019 - 1 Pair, 5 Fledged
2020 - 1 Pair, 4 Fledged
2021 - 8 Pair, 36 Fledged
2022 - 13 Pair, 46 Fledged
2023 - 16 Pair, 84 Fledged
2024 - 22 Pair, 104 Fledged
2025 - 28 Pair, 83 Fledged

The Tree Swallows are due in Southeastern, Ohio any day now.. and the Martins aren’t far behind... :wink:

Dave
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Little Hocking, Ohio
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jogl
Posts: 20
Joined: Mon Aug 31, 2009 2:17 pm
Location: SW Ontario, Canada

Dave, please post it up when your tree swallows show up.

Thanks,
JP.
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