Pm migration
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Watching the scout return map and the numbers seem low and limited to south Florida (i do realize this is where they normally return first). Is this the norm? I'm not upset though with this huge cold front coming!
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- Location: Paulina, Louisiana
Seems like it happens every year. South Florida is the first place every year it seems. And I find that we are always expecting frigid weather here in South La when they start their movement in our direction. Several years ago they came, and we had weather so cold many birds were found frozen to death inside the houses, and a local landlord 10 miles from me had close to 40 dead Martins in his yard one morning. I lost 4 birds that year. One year there were continuous strong North winds and we just knew many must have perished trying to cross the Gulf to get to us. Once they start that journey, they have no place to rest or eat except an occasional oil rig. I wish the migration didn't start until the weather was nice and warm, but then that would mean we would have less time to enjoy them here before they left again. Nature is cruel and I guess it's her way of thinning the herds. Sad but true.
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- 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:
HOSP: Starlings: 3
Home colony: mix natural, super, Troyer and excluder gourds, enlarged compartment house. All SREH.
Satellite colony: Oso Bay Preserve: 36 PMCA excluder gourds, 4 natural 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:
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Agree, they (and I) can wait. But they will come anyway.
Early on is trying times, keys to their success (outside that arctic blast) is supplemental feeding...even then, a prolonged event is almost impossible to overcome.
Its a great time to see folks and their returns, but its a guarded time. Agree with Conrad, mother nature can be brutal.
Early on is trying times, keys to their success (outside that arctic blast) is supplemental feeding...even then, a prolonged event is almost impossible to overcome.
Its a great time to see folks and their returns, but its a guarded time. Agree with Conrad, mother nature can be brutal.
A good house sparrow is a dead house sparrow.