Purple Martin Forum

I have had several martins jump and I put them on the tin house will the mothers feed and take care of them till they are ready to fly.

don't feel bad I moved my housing 5 times before i got martins don't concrete things in place until you get martins then stablelize everything moving the house away from the fence is a great idea racoons can get on the fence and clime the pole an eat your martins remember they like to feel safe make...

This may sound crazy and I'm not an expert but martins like to look down and they don,t like any thing hanging under there house in a colony thats not established yet.they also like a 10 foot drop and a 40 foot run I think you have done everything right your open, away from trees, but this is my sug...

My third year my lone male brought back at least three different females they built a nest and the weather got bad and they flew off never to return that year the next year a older male and female built a nest and had young the fourth year I ended up with 23 pair so don't give up but once martins fi...

I have used the dawn song and have attracted purple martins once they find the place its up to them if they decide to stay or not I gave a copy of the dawn song to a neighbor once he played it one time he seen a purple martin flying shut the tape off and his colony got started I think it is very imp...

from what I have noticed it takes a lot of energy to nest build and feed young I don't know how your weather is there but when it is cool they have to travel far for food and until they are ready to nest and insects or plentiful they will stay gone all day and come back right at dark so to seem them...

I agree with razman now that you have a pair they will do the chatter and dawn song to attract other martins good luck.

just keep watching when you see green leaves go into the gourd the breading is about to began them they continue to put leave into the gourd until the young hatch good luck i am really excited for you I know what it is like but try to reframe just watch and observe I don't think its good not to dist...

I think the dawn song is great it won't make martins stay at your sight but it can help them find a place and investigate your sight however it dosent have to be loud and once you see martins it is best to turn it down low or completly shut it off because it has scared martins away expecially if you...

that is a really beautiful set up what martin would not like those castles

The S&S controller is a exellent trap for starlings and sparrows .you can build your own or buy one from the link not allowed in pennsylvania. It will control the s&s while your away,however they do migrate so they may be detered by the entrance and move farther north.

so really!!!!!!!! if you want martins get rid of your cats you cannot have both if you don't have an established colony and once you have an established colony watch them like a hawk they will kill song birds and your martins whenever the opptunity fits.

Martins come here to nest and raise young anything that would make them unsussefful in nesting or predators in close proxsemitry would deter them from staying and having young when I was trying to get a martin colony established I ask a amish man why I couldn't get martins to stay and the first thin...

One year I noticed starlings going into the trap and would come back out the same hole so I lowered the trap to find the mud wasp built a mud nest in the corner and the trap tried to reset it would drag on the mud nest and wouldn't reset hopefully yours is not scraping on the sides or font door good...

well hope this doesn't take too long but here it goes my grandmother had purple martins on the other side of an alley from mr. singleton ( my school principle ) which had a purple martin house that looked like a T-14 maybe it was. I was about 14 at the time when I went to visit her she would ask me ...

I have the same thing at my place and it doesn't seem to matter that means there is more bugs for them to eat do you have an established colony? If you watch martins come out of the housing they like to drop about 10ft down and a forty foot run before they come up into the air but they are very adap...

I don't see anything wrong with putting the housing in your side yard they say anywhere from 40ft to nor more than 120 foot from human activity because the martins feel protected and if you would have visitors that like the place don't move anything they don't like new housing and they don't seem to...

We finally had lots of activity in 2008 late in june we have two nesting pairs of purple martins we were overjoyed to have this happen never say never this is our 4th year trying weeks and months went by and finally it happened we are new landlords and we plan to provide the best care possible but w...

I was wondering here in indiana I just obtained a asy male 2 subadult females and a subadult male do they have time to nest and fledge.

thanks for your response having visitors is a good thing I have been trying for about four years now. I am confident that it will happen but maybe not this year but I still have time. I didn't answer you question yes I will be playing the dawn song.