Done For This Season

[roymg1]

All of the young ones have fledged and everyone is now roosting in some tree now.
I only had six pair to deal with this year as I did not open up all of my rooms.
The house is down and the late coming sparrows cant figure out why the house is
closed. I still get some flybys in the morngs and evenings but looks to be
another end of season, which seems to have come early this year. Normally,
it happens in mid July. I suppose we are in for a hot summer. Now they will all gather
at our Lake Pontchartrain Causeway, as they do every year, to fatten up for the trip
South.

Update:
Yeah the season is over but I get daily fly-around visits. Yesterday at noon about thirty
came by. It's nice to know I had some part in this.

[Conrad Baker]

I have noticed a huge decrease in activity too. A few birds seem like they are still feeding babies, but most of my flock have moved elsewhere. Won't be long before the housing comes down and cleaned to be put away until next January. The time sure seems to go quickly-It seems like I was just putting them up. Probably a good thing they are gone before we start getting hurricanes. I can't imagine what would happen to my S&K plastic houses if a 100 mph hurricane came through while they were up, not to mention how the birds would make it through.

[Thomas Maddox]

Conrad, when Hurricane Laura ripped through our area( close to Lake Charles), we had sustained winds of 160+. I was a new landlord (and a poor one at that). I had one S&K house up. I forgot to lower it. Every single pole(electricity) in our area was knocked down. Trees covering every road, but that pole didn't even bend. Luck i guess. Since, I've added a Trendsetter 16 compartment home and another Troyer gourd rack. I won't forget, nor chance it again though!

[Conrad Baker]

160+ is a serious storm. I remember seeing an old ad for S&K that showed the devastation of a hurricane in Galveston several years ago. Everything was flattened with no roofs on any houses in the picture. Only thing left standing was an S&K house on a tri-tel pole. I wouldn't want to chance it, and I'm glad the Martins are gone before we get too far into hurricane season. Last year, I think all my birds were gone by June 23 and I took the houses down the first week of July. Looks like the same this year, as I didn't see any birds this morning.

[Thomas Maddox]

Crazy storm indeed! 150+mph over 120 miles inland from the shore and was still considered a Cat 1 when it hit Arkansas. I have a few left to fledge and suspect they'll be gone when we get back from vacation. Man, this year has flown by!