Trapping strategies- by a very good landlord

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C.C.Martins
Posts: 2876
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.
HOSP: 52 Starlings: 29
Home colony: mix natural, super, Troyer and excluder gourds, enlarged compartment house. All SREH.
Satellite colony: Oso Bay Preserve: 36 PMCA excluder gourds, 6 room trio mini castle with troyer tunnels and enlarged compartments.
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,
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https://kathyfreeze.blogspot.com/2015/0 ... r.html?m=1

If you havnt read or heard about Kathy Freeze, take a moment and read the blog.
She is a long time martin landlord, very experienced. She says she doesn't want to build a super colony of martins...she wants to build a super colony of landlords.

Tom
A good house sparrow is a dead house sparrow.
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Thomas Maddox
Posts: 273
Joined: Fri Jun 25, 2021 5:23 pm
Location: Sulphur, Louisiana

She's awesome! Thanks for sharing!
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C.C.Martins
Posts: 2876
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.
HOSP: 52 Starlings: 29
Home colony: mix natural, super, Troyer and excluder gourds, enlarged compartment house. All SREH.
Satellite colony: Oso Bay Preserve: 36 PMCA excluder gourds, 6 room trio mini castle with troyer tunnels and enlarged compartments.
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,
PMCA member

Very welcome. Yes she's great. I did all her trapping ideas, from stand alone trap houses to ground, van erts, universal sparrow traps, her snake net configuration, you name it. Even managed to get 2 van ert traps into a trio house. I cannot afford the monster pellet gun she has nor have I had to build the owl guards she has around her colony. But I know how to build the cage if it comes to it.
She means business.
A good house sparrow is a dead house sparrow.
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Martintown33
Posts: 1025
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

Great article tom! Great trapping tips… as my HOSPs are pretty well under control, and I’m more of a hunter of my HOSPS, than a trapper, I prefer hunting method, … but awesome info if I need it in the future. Will save this article. It’s definitely something all new Martin landlords should read, if they are skittish about eliminating HOSPS..
Rob
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C.C.Martins
Posts: 2876
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.
HOSP: 52 Starlings: 29
Home colony: mix natural, super, Troyer and excluder gourds, enlarged compartment house. All SREH.
Satellite colony: Oso Bay Preserve: 36 PMCA excluder gourds, 6 room trio mini castle with troyer tunnels and enlarged compartments.
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,
PMCA member

Agree Rob, prefer hunting. But man. You'd be surprised, this year 3 males i never saw in nest box traps...alls quiet then out of no where 3 in 3 days.
A good house sparrow is a dead house sparrow.
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Martintown33
Posts: 1025
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

Yep Tom… 3 in 3 days… yes indeed! …that’s the beauty of traps.. they’re always working and hunting, even when we’re not…
Rob
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Laplace, La
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C.C.Martins
Posts: 2876
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.
HOSP: 52 Starlings: 29
Home colony: mix natural, super, Troyer and excluder gourds, enlarged compartment house. All SREH.
Satellite colony: Oso Bay Preserve: 36 PMCA excluder gourds, 6 room trio mini castle with troyer tunnels and enlarged compartments.
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,
PMCA member

Oh I like that sir.
Good thing I didn't treat them as a false trip, almost did. Peaked in there and saw the profile crouched against the wall. 2 in back, one in front.
Soon I'll move them all near some suet feeders for starlings, they just cannot resist the dark hole. Ill put them on a 1 inch 7 foot tall length of pipe, stacked right on top of each other. They fight for the suet and like a magnet, drawn right in.
Fun to watch!
A good house sparrow is a dead house sparrow.
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Thomas Maddox
Posts: 273
Joined: Fri Jun 25, 2021 5:23 pm
Location: Sulphur, Louisiana

Keep up the great work!
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