Purple Martin Forum

What would normally happen if a few houses have been removed about a mile from my place that had a good colony for the last few years? Should I have my houses open for the scouts that are missing a house, or wait until the later wave comes in?????

how did you fit a t14 in a trio, isn't the trio the round house with triangular nests

Emil, you were right. The openings were 1 3/8 inches maybe larger. What is the smallest martins can get in. I reduced the size, but some are now less then 1 3/16 in size.

I can't believe it. I put some molding on the porches about 2.5 inches deep and raised the height below the openings to about 1/8 inch, and the darn starlings scooted right in anyway, what the heck, I hate those buggers, war has been declared

Matt, what are the clothes pins for??? Are they just there waiting to open the house at the right time????? Cary

Matt, thanks for the tip, that's what i may do, seems like it will work fine. I wish I could leave round holes, but the starlings are two bad, I am going to build me a trap and see if i can catch em all, Cary

Teri, I think I know what your are suggesting. The other end of the next box should open also, so I can do nest checks from that end and make the entrance side permanent????

Emil, the distance from the porch to the bottom of the whole is much to great, only problem is the doors swing out, does the raised porch have to be right below the opening, or can it set back some?????

Thank you Emil, I will check that out, should be pretty easy

I have a modified nature house Mk-12 and i put on the nature house doors with SREH entrances, doggone starlings went in them today!!!!!! Anything I can do about that, I just switched from round holes

This is a new house. The main thing I have is starlings and sparrows. I have the manual for the player, but its not doing what I need it to do. I got the settings from someone on this board a few years ago.

Its been a few years since I have been here, but I got the settings for the boom box I mentioned above to play a continuous loop of the dawn song to go on at about 4:00 Am, and off about 8:30 AM. Does anyone have those settings? Also, should I open my house now? Adults showed up around my area a few...