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~Ray~Gingerich
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Joined: Mon Jan 05, 2004 10:24 pm
Location: Delaware/Dover

Yesterday morning the clouds were billowing up the horizon to the south west, I had to take some pics of course.
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~Ray~ Gingerich
1999 1pair, 2006 2 pair, 2008 2 pair,
2009 23 pair, 2010 39 pair, 2011 67 pair,
2012 115 pair, 2013 160 pair,
2014 152 pair, 2015 174 pair, 2016 178 pair
2017 187 pair, 2018 200 pair, 2019 171pair
2020 233 pair
AvianStewardess
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Joined: Wed May 09, 2012 3:10 pm
Location: Maryland/Cambridge

Neat pictures, and systems. Am I recalling correctly from a past post that your gourds are natural? At first glance they look so uniform but then the differences between each pops out. How many feet is each arm that the gourds hang from?
~Michelle
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~Ray~Gingerich
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Michelle, the first picture is one of my homemade racks, it contains only Supergourds and Bo-11's. The second picture is my Hybrid multi house unit the gourds on it are all Troyers. I only have 8 natural gourds total, martins like them but they are a mess to maintain, hard to clean out etc. All the plastic gourds are an easy clean except the Bo-11 takes a little more work.
~Ray~ Gingerich
1999 1pair, 2006 2 pair, 2008 2 pair,
2009 23 pair, 2010 39 pair, 2011 67 pair,
2012 115 pair, 2013 160 pair,
2014 152 pair, 2015 174 pair, 2016 178 pair
2017 187 pair, 2018 200 pair, 2019 171pair
2020 233 pair
Virgil McCoy
Posts: 302
Joined: Wed Aug 04, 2010 3:06 pm
Location: Louisiana/Alexandria
Martin Colony History: Purple Martin Landlord since 2006

Really nice pictures!
Proud to be a fourth generation Purple Martin landlord.
Rick Meyer
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Joined: Fri Nov 12, 2010 4:12 pm
Location: Kansas/Spring Hill

Great pics Ray.....did you get any rain out of those clouds. Here in eastern Kansas the yards look like its mid August.....very dry.
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