Pics Of My T-14

[Davlyn]

Hello Nanette
Your house is beautiful! I might build me one over the winter, depending
on the number of martins I have this year. Good luck to you this year!!!

[Nanette]

I solved my gourd hitting problem! If I can get my neighbor over to take a picture I'll post one. I bought 1/16 cable wire (what a pain to cut cleanly), 1/16 aluminum crimp things, eye hooks, and small cotter pins. I cut the cable to approx 10 inches and made a loop on one side and crimped it shut. I then put the eye hook in the house and made a loop through the eye hook with the other end of the cable and crimped it shut. I then put the first loop up through a drainhole in the gourd and put a cotter pin through it so it couldn't come out. The cotter pin ends up laying flat on the bottom of the gourd. I can still remove the gourd by removing the pin. I then painted everything white. There is one cable on each side of the gourd. The gourd moves only a little and the whole thing looks great! Thanks for the lanyard idea!

[Emil Pampell-Tx]

Nanette, that should be very good to keep the gourds from hitting each other or hitting the house...In fact, some of my gourds are fastened so they can't swing, and I like that and the martins sure use them, usually occupy them first...