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lockharttaylor
Posts: 210
Joined: Sun Jul 03, 2005 1:33 pm
Location: texas/lockhart

we had 2 visitors today 2/1 probably males.
8 pairs 2005, 33 pairs 2006, 55 pairs 2007, 65 pairs 227 fledged 2008, 68 pairs 244 fledged 2009, 63 pairs 291 fledged 2010 make 296 2011 73 pairs 2013 59 Pairs 190 Fledged,2014 62 Pairs 2 babies 230 Fledged 2015? 72 pairs 4 babies 273 fledged 2018 75 pairs 267 fledged 2020, 81 pairs 2022 70 pairs 324 fledged 2023, 2024 have 38 House room & 48 Gourd room 81 pairs & 324 fledged 2025 38 house room & 62 Gourd b11 S K 2026 70 bo 11+ Gourd & 27 House Room
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! The purple wave is starting! Congrats and hope your season is a great one.
Tom
A good house sparrow is a dead house sparrow.
HOSP: 17. Starlings: 23
brent
Posts: 1280
Joined: Sat Feb 10, 2018 2:43 pm
Location: Raceland, Louisiana

Wow lockharttaylor! Congrats and wow do you have a colony! How do you manage such a large colony? I have a total of 16 compartments and am always on pins and needles with concern for the martins. How do you do it? Just let me know how involved you are. That is great. Thanks for sharing your new arrivals. Brent
Brent
lockharttaylor
Posts: 210
Joined: Sun Jul 03, 2005 1:33 pm
Location: texas/lockhart

we now have up to 20 martins, yesterday we had 8 more came they when to the houses instead of gourds, so had to open more rooms because had only two rooms open

we have 6o bo 11 plus and 2 regular. two house with 8 rooms each. and then two more house with one has 12 rooms and the other has 10 rooms. with the total of 100 compartments.
last year we only 3 empty compartments. we added 14 new gourds this year, we are on a corner lot in the city.
8 pairs 2005, 33 pairs 2006, 55 pairs 2007, 65 pairs 227 fledged 2008, 68 pairs 244 fledged 2009, 63 pairs 291 fledged 2010 make 296 2011 73 pairs 2013 59 Pairs 190 Fledged,2014 62 Pairs 2 babies 230 Fledged 2015? 72 pairs 4 babies 273 fledged 2018 75 pairs 267 fledged 2020, 81 pairs 2022 70 pairs 324 fledged 2023, 2024 have 38 House room & 48 Gourd room 81 pairs & 324 fledged 2025 38 house room & 62 Gourd b11 S K 2026 70 bo 11+ Gourd & 27 House Room
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