Purple Martin Forum

the pears wouldn't worry me as much as the large tree on the opposite side which will be where your hawks and owls will launch from
tom

I know that my Trio Castles have had close to 100% the last couple of years. I've modified them into two room suites, SREH, and porch dividers. My only complaint is having to open the individual doors in nest checks while with my other home made housing I open one door and check 4 or 5 nests at a ti...

Ok You Guys.....I'll see if anyone has a package locally otherwise it'll be ordered tomorrow.....:>)
you've convinced me to give it a try....

Hi Flyin Lowe...
Yes, but will the same hawk continue to strike at the same plastic bird or will it learn real quick to by pass it on it's next hunt?

Problem is my trio is the 12 sided castle and a fence must be easy to raise for nest checks.......guess we have a lay awake engineering project

Question about decoys.....how long do they work....when a hawk hits them don't they quickly figure out to go for the moving stuff?? I am thinking of mounting them on springs so they'll wobble? any thoughts on how long they are useful?

Well, thanks for all your repllies......running and clapping and yellling is usually too late if I'm in the house....and the times I was fast enough I was in my undies so gotta keep from being arrested LOL I have thought of putting "fencing" around the trio castles because that is where he...

Sick with what I just watched as an awesome winged predator took one of my fat adult males and flew off with lunch......and feeling impotent to stop him from coming back for more now that he has been successful. I saw him twice this morning and chased him off with shouts and running at him in the tr...

That wire cage will do double duty at night when the Great horned owl comes to dine....I added the fencing to my housing last year when a GHO made several return trips and broke off several porches reaching in for dinner. My running out at dusk in my undies clapping and hollering to scare him off wa...

Hi Trent
I'm interested in what yoour signs say and if there is a source for those.
I llive on a samll lake and the boaters now refer to my place as Martin Point....I was just thinking yesterday about some kind of informative sign on my dock...maybeI could end up mentoring someone else on the lake
tom

Congrats.... Jerry......now it begins...the obsession !! :>) Same to Tom in Paragon!! I did a check earlier this week and had 62 nests with 232 eggs...some just starting to lay. Two of my houses are full and will have young this week...I'll do a nest check today or tomorrow...I'll be building some m...

it won't spook them near as much as a critter crawling up that pole and reaching in doing that grabby feely thing.....put it on!.......my great horned owl has been seen on the houses but I havn't seen the feather piles since I put the owl guards on......and those owl guards sure slowed them down mor...

For this Indiana landlord it will be known as the year of the owl.....with numbers come troubles and mine is in the form of a Great Horned Owl that we've seen the evidence of a few times and have seen him arrive at dusk 5 times now....last night we saw him swoop up to one of the houses and hang ther...

well, Flyinlowe......if you've been faithful in sparrow and starling control, they'll be fine with you gone a week.....come back to the beginning of your colony with excitment!!!! CONGRATS

having studied the reviews by game farm users I'm not ready to buy the night guards....seems they were more effective on migrating hawks. You can google that info....I do think the music has some merit in confusing the hearing of the owl as those rascal martins don't just go to bed and go to sleep.....

Thanks Emil, the martins were making lots of noise tonight as they learned their new entry routine...took them awhile.....5 minutes ago I took a look and saw dark vader making a pass low over the water and land on my boat lift near 3 of my houses so.....I have a feeling the wires are going to get a ...

Well, Emil....two healthy blisters later from cutting fencing with 2" by 4" weave. They all flew and watched yelling at me because it took quite a while....now they are just sitting on top looking....hope they figure out how to pass through it and sit tight when dark vader comes!

the last three nights I watched an owl come and take up a perch near duskso I promply went out and made a fool of my self running, clapping, making crazy scare an owl sounds and ran it off. Last night I sat out till my none owl eyes could see anymore and went in....he came back last night too. left ...

I'm just south of you, Joe, in Coatesville, and I'm overrun....Sy have shown up in great numbers making this a noisy spot. I too am planning a build party this winter...two new ones if the budget permits....

Bernie.....you must have more time in the frozen north to think of these great ideas......I think you are on to something....now...to those who haven't heard a Hosp in distress you are welcome to listen when I remove them in a firm grip from my trap.....there is a REAL difference in the tone of thei...