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Purple_martinfan
Posts: 6
Joined: Wed Mar 31, 2021 5:03 pm
Location: Killeen

I am pretty sure we are about to move away, and i have a martin colony..which they are probably about to arrive... should i just not put the house up? will they be ok?
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SSMartin
Posts: 463
Joined: Sun Jul 21, 2019 6:05 pm
Location: FL

If the new owners aren’t interested or won’t manage it I wouldn’t put it up.They will eventually break off for other sites. Perhaps a new landlord will be blessed with your former birds. They will be ok.
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Thomas Maddox
Posts: 580
Joined: Fri Jun 25, 2021 5:23 pm
Location: Sulphur, Louisiana

I agree
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flyin-lowe
Posts: 3788
Joined: Wed Mar 29, 2006 8:49 am
Location: Indiana/Henry Co.

How far away are you moving? Reason I ask is we moved in February back in 2012. Since our martins hadn't arrived yet and I didn't have a new house bought yet I asked the new buyers about leaving the housing up the first year and then if they wanted to put their own housing up in the future they could. By the next season we had bought a house around 7 miles away. The new owners had no interest in keeping housing up so I took mine and the martins were displaced. I felt this increased my odds of them finding my new place. The last year the housing was up at my old house there was 30 pair there. The next year as they arrived they hovered around for about a week and would then leave realizing they needed to find a new spot. If you are not moving too far away you could not put the housing up at the old site and increase your odds of some of them finding your new location.

Either way martins are communal creatures. They will either find another colony nearby to join or they might find a site that has been empty which would make those peoples day.
2026 HOSP 26
2025 62 pair HOSP 20
2024 60 pair, HOSP 44
2023 60+ pair, HOSP 8
2022 60 nests with 262 eggs, HOSP 14
2021 62 pair, HOSP 9
2020 42 nest, HOSP 8
2019- 31 pair
2018- 15 pair 49 fledged
2017 3 SY pair, 12 eggs , fledged 10. 4 additional lone SY's
2016 1 pair fledged 4
2015 Visitors
2014 Visitors
2013 Moved 6 miles, 1 pair fledged 2.
2012 30 pair fledged 100.
2011 12 pair 43 fledged.
2010 5 pair 14 fledged.
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SSMartin
Posts: 463
Joined: Sun Jul 21, 2019 6:05 pm
Location: FL

Flyin-lowe

What happened last year for you to have no martins?
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flyin-lowe
Posts: 3788
Joined: Wed Mar 29, 2006 8:49 am
Location: Indiana/Henry Co.

I had about my normal numbers. I was really busy with work and life last year and only did two nest checks all season. When I took my housing down at the end of the year there were over 60 nests and only a couple dead young and few eggs that never hatched. I just never got around to doing an actual count, and by the time I took my housing down in the fall I didn't even think to update my profile.
2026 HOSP 26
2025 62 pair HOSP 20
2024 60 pair, HOSP 44
2023 60+ pair, HOSP 8
2022 60 nests with 262 eggs, HOSP 14
2021 62 pair, HOSP 9
2020 42 nest, HOSP 8
2019- 31 pair
2018- 15 pair 49 fledged
2017 3 SY pair, 12 eggs , fledged 10. 4 additional lone SY's
2016 1 pair fledged 4
2015 Visitors
2014 Visitors
2013 Moved 6 miles, 1 pair fledged 2.
2012 30 pair fledged 100.
2011 12 pair 43 fledged.
2010 5 pair 14 fledged.
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Purple_martinfan
Posts: 6
Joined: Wed Mar 31, 2021 5:03 pm
Location: Killeen

I will try to see if the new people will do it. :grin: I am moving a few states away.
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