Hello everyone,
My last post regarding nesting activity may have sounded pessimistic. All that changed this morning.
The building frenzy is BACK ON. The residents exhausted a pine needle supply beneath a copse of three pines in my front yard by 9:30 this AM. I gathered a bucketful of needles from under the roof edge of my boathouse and scattered them in my yard. Martins jumped on this motherload like a bunch of buzzards on a 3 day old roadkill. I'm betting on having nests with eggs on this weekend's nest check (4/11-13).
Nesting activity at my Palm City, FL colony
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mjfog
- Posts: 393
- Joined: Sat Dec 30, 2017 3:40 pm
- Location: Palm City, FL
- Martin Colony History: 2018 will be my first try. 6 S&K B09s. 29 eggs - 8 fledged
2019 - 12 Troyer Horizontals with tunnels, 6 S&K B09s and 12 B011s all with tunnels. 43 eggs - 36 fledged
2020 - Rack 1 - 6 B011s, Rack 2 - 24 B011s, and Rack 3 - 24 Troyer Horizontals. All gourds have tunnels, porches and crescent/Conley 11 entrances; racks have predator guards. 161 eggs - 88 fledged.
2021 - 54 gourds-214 eggs, 184 hatched, 168 fledged.
2022 - 3 racks of 24 gourds. 363 eggs, 294 hatched, 278 fledged.
2023 - 3 racks of 24 gourds. 321 eggs, 276 hatched, 246 fledged.
2024 - 3 racks of 24 gourds. 330 eggs, 283 hatched, 250 fledged.