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gussiemike
Posts: 46
Joined: Mon Jun 09, 2008 8:26 am
Location: Baton Rouge, LA
Martin Colony History: 07/3pair 08/10pair 09/14pair 10/17pair 11/18pair 12/21pair 13/18pair 14/20pair 15/13pair 16/7pair. Landlord for 10yrs. Colony has shrunk the last two yrs.

Well we finally saw our first pm scout today. It was a adult male single. made a lot of flyovers. He lit a few times checked out the gourds. We had our dawn song going all day. I supposed that was what attracted him to our site. We hope this is a start of more to come.
Good luck to all Land Lords this year.
07/3pair
08/10pair
09/14pair
10/17pair
11/19pair
12/21pair
13/18pair
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

..guessiemike ... Sure hope he comes back for you... That’s always exciting when you see that first one of the season.. Good luck this season....

Dave
PMCA Member
Little Hocking, Ohio
C.C.Martins
Posts: 3368
Joined: Fri Apr 14, 2017 11:15 am
Location: Corpus Christi Tx
Martin Colony History: 2016- Visitors.
2017- 5 pair. 15 fledged
2018- 18 pair. 85 fledged
2019- 17 pair. 81 fledged
2020- 25 pair. 111 fledged
2021- 28 pair. 118 fledged
2022- 33 pair. 151 fledged
2023- 33 pair. 165 fledged
2024- 40 pair. 185 fledged
2025- 40 pair. 181 fledged
HOSP:
Home colony: mix natural, super, Troyer and excluder gourds, enlarged compartment house. All SREH.

Satellite colony: Oso Bay Preserve: 49 PMCA excluder gourds; 16 room Lonestar Goliad with Modified Excluder entrances.
2019: Visitors
2020: 3 pair, 11 fledged
2021: 10 pair, 30 fledged
2022: 11 pair, 35 fledged
2023: 18 pair, 101 fledged
2024: 39 pair, 181 fledged
2025: 51 pair, 216 fledged
PMCA member

Great news! Yes, thats a good sign...hope he recruits many more for you and stays.
Tom
A good house sparrow is a dead house sparrow.
HOSP: 17. Starlings: 23
PMDavid
Posts: 534
Joined: Wed May 16, 2018 8:50 pm
Location: Boyce,Louisiana
Martin Colony History: 2018 1 lone nut and lots of visitors
2019 6 pair -21fledged
2020 18 pair -60 fledged
2021......to be seen.
24 natural gourds on a satellite rack,9 other gourds scattered around
2-12 compartment trio houses
Rarely see a sparrow or starling,but when I do they don’t last long!
Will have a second satellite rack for the 2022 season and phase out the houses,the martins here strongly prefer natural gourds.

That’s great news ,I also saw the first bird today around my site,passer through or the neighbors I don’t know but it was the first over my yard. Lots of reports today on Sunday in south Louisiana. They should be workin their way on up over the next few days to a week,gettin very excited!
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