Please please use SREH

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C.C.Martins
Posts: 3190
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:
HOSP: 12 Starlings: 10
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:
PMCA member

All,
Just venting. Have about 30 migrants stalled here, going to freeze tonight, winds 30 out of the north. Cold days ahead. Break on Sat late.
Fed until late and watched to see them go in.
They are not used to SREH, iv got excluder, modified excluder, and crescents. Only 5 or 6 figured them out. Crescents are easiest, yet nope.
House has many martins stacked on the ledges on this cold cold night. Rest took off to wherever.
Good news is whoever gets these birds, they know about flipped food. Eventally just had to walk out and they came. Bad news is they may not arrive.
Use SREH, train them. Make them safe.
Ok off the soap box.
A good house sparrow is a dead house sparrow.
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