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Martintown33
Posts: 1366
Joined: Tue Jun 01, 2021 6:21 pm
Location: Laplace,La
Martin Colony History: Colony started in 1998. 2 s&k modified houses and gourd rack

Very nice.. looks like they’re ready to become residents!
Good luck..
Rob
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Laplace, La
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Martini
Posts: 27
Joined: Sun Apr 02, 2023 7:53 pm
Location: Chatom, AL
Martin Colony History: S&K Bo9 Clinger Gourds with tunnels and porches, S&K Barn(modified for big compartments), Watersedge 8 Room Condo, and Troyer Deluxe 18 gourd combo for the 2025 season.
2023-- A lot of visitors
2024-- A lot more visitors

Martintown33 wrote: ↑
Sun May 07, 2023 2:57 pm
 Very nice.. looks like they’re ready to become residents!
Good luck..
Rob
Man I hope so. They just came by again checking things out. Maybe they will be the founders of my colony :grin:
~Nick
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CTMartins
Posts: 168
Joined: Fri Dec 17, 2021 1:30 pm
Location: Hartford CT

SO JEALOUS !!! I keep seeing glider type birds around and flew my song magnet up the post this weekend.
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Martini
Posts: 27
Joined: Sun Apr 02, 2023 7:53 pm
Location: Chatom, AL
Martin Colony History: S&K Bo9 Clinger Gourds with tunnels and porches, S&K Barn(modified for big compartments), Watersedge 8 Room Condo, and Troyer Deluxe 18 gourd combo for the 2025 season.
2023-- A lot of visitors
2024-- A lot more visitors

CTMartins wrote: ↑
Mon May 08, 2023 9:10 am
 SO JEALOUS !!! I keep seeing glider type birds around and flew my song magnet up the post this weekend.
Yeah I am getting a lot of activity which helps but I'm still impatient for some to stay, lol. I hope you get to see some action soon!
~Nick
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Martini
Posts: 27
Joined: Sun Apr 02, 2023 7:53 pm
Location: Chatom, AL
Martin Colony History: S&K Bo9 Clinger Gourds with tunnels and porches, S&K Barn(modified for big compartments), Watersedge 8 Room Condo, and Troyer Deluxe 18 gourd combo for the 2025 season.
2023-- A lot of visitors
2024-- A lot more visitors

It's crazy how every Sunday I will have a visitor or two or three. I have chalked this year up as a big learning curve full of visiting Martins. So with that, I have added a Waters Edge 8 room condo with the 6x12 compartments and a S&K barn that I modified into the 6x12 compartments and closed off the attic. I put the barn on top of my BO9 gourds. Everything is up for them to see when they start back south. Just in case they want to mark my place on the way by.
~Nick
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DeeCee
Posts: 56
Joined: Fri Jul 26, 2019 2:59 pm
Location: Brandon, Manitoba
Martin Colony History: 2019 1 pair 4 fledged
2020 4 pairs 11 fledged
2021 7 pairs 33 fledged
2022 9 pairs 35 fledged
2023 9 pairs 37 fledged
2024 8 pairs 34 fledged

For a while, I used to think C.C. Martins stood for Canadian Club,,,,then realized I was wrong, it was Corpus Christi. :lol:
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Jones4381
Posts: 840
Joined: Sat Apr 25, 2020 10:54 pm
Location: Southwestern VA
Martin Colony History: 2020- 0
2021- 1 pair-5
2022- 5 pair-20
2023 34 pair-44
2024 30 pair-122
2025 54 Pair -178
2026 65 pair- 220+/-

DeeCee wrote: ↑
Wed May 24, 2023 9:15 am
 For a while, I used to think C.C. Martins stood for Canadian Club,,,,then realized I was wrong, it was Corpus Christi. :lol:
I still don't know...lol. I always assumed C.C. really meant See See as in I see see Martins....lol Guess we all see things through different lenses.
"Be content with what you have; rejoice in the way things are. When you realize there is nothing lacking, the whole world belongs to you." - Lao Tzu
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jhcox
Posts: 804
Joined: Thu May 26, 2016 9:23 am
Location: tennesse
Martin Colony History: Started colony in 2014. 0 pairs
2015 0 pairs
2016 0 pairs
2017 0 pairs but visitors
2018 1 pair fledged 5
2019 10 pair
2020 25 pair
2021 42 Pair
2022 60 Pair
2023 72 Pair
2024 74 pair
2025 78 pair

Hey a good indicator that they a possibly spending time in the gourds or have stayed overnight some is that you will start to see a small cup shape forming near the back of the gourd in the pine straw. Hope this helps and good luck.

JHCox Heiskell Tn
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