Purple Martin Forum

Way to go Jeff! We had an old male show up here just north of Springfield on 3/18 and hang around for a couple of days with no company. He took off just before the snow and we have had no action since... Hopin this next wave of warmth and sun (after Sunday) will bring the migration our way! Good luc...

Hey Tony, I found a definition from the PMCA Scout Arrival Study link that seems to say If it shows up, count it... Congrats on your arrivals :grin: bill PLEASE NOTE: We are only interested in "scout" dates from active sites (i.e., sites that housed breeding Purple Martins last year), and ...

Hey Tony, I found a definition from the PMCA Scout Arrival Study link that seems to say If it shows up, count it... Congrats on your arrivals :grin: bill PLEASE NOTE: We are only interested in "scout" dates from active sites (i.e., sites that housed breeding Purple Martins last year), and ...

My wife says our guy hung around today till around 2 or so then took off. He came back alone at 7:10. I don't recall having just one bird at all last year, they came in bunches. It's kind of sad but on the other hand I would worry more if a flock had to ride out the snowstorm thats coming. He sure i...

My wife says our guy hung around today till around 2 or so then took off. He came back alone at 7:10. I don't recall having just one bird at all last year, they came in bunches. It's kind of sad but on the other hand I would worry more if a flock had to ride out the snowstorm thats coming. He sure i...

At 7 tonight I was pointing out the beautiful blue birds perched atop my three new martin houses I just put up two days ago and boom, there he was! Swooping in from nowhere he spent a few minutes circling around and giving me the drive by chirping I've been so waiting for... Then he flew in and land...

Very cool Hugh! I hope everyone takes a couple of minutes and does this as it's a great way to check on whos got what where. Thanks

Bill

Wow RD..... just WOW!!! :grin: I am incredibly impressed at your sticktoitivness... I mean wouldn't most sane people after say, 25 years of trying unsuccessfully to attract martins just give up? Not you! Wow... How rewarding it must be for you to see all of your hard work pay off. Big ups and congra...

Chris, Here is a recent post about the Tulsa roost... It must be awesome!!! bill Posted: Mon Jul 13, 2009 10:15 am Post subject: Tulsa Roost in Same Area as Last Year -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Saturday evening I went looking for the location of ...

Hey Chris! I live 10 miles north of Springfield, MO and our birds are just now leaving... :cry: On Sunday we saw 150+ birds sitting on a high wire behind the house and then poof.... Almost all gone. There is one lone re-nester that isn't scheduled to fledge her 5 babies for another week so they are ...

I remember reading a forum topic concerning the changing of housing mid-season and it's possible repercussions. I recently found myself facing this issue and thought I'd share my results (so far anyway)... On Friday, 5/8 our site was hit by a tornado here in SW Missouri. :shock: Although it was only...

I believe this is our fourth year hosting a martin colony and the second year we've had a clue as to what we're doing :oops: After joining the PMCA last year and studying up on what to do and not to do we began the task of ridding our site of S&S... As a hunter of turkeys and deer, I own a 12 ga...

Although this our 4th year of hosting martins we just found the forum last year and was several weeks into the season at that... Sure have learned a lot from you fab folks! We kept pretty good records after becoming educated but missed tracking arrival dates for both scouts and subbies. This year we...

Hey Marilyn! Must have been a wave of birds in our area cause I had my first pair of the year show up today too!!! :grin: I don't remember ever seeing anything such a beautiful shade of purple... Oh yeah, we live north of Springfield about 10 miles... I also noticed on the Scout Page that Rogersvill...

CMF, The gourd rack is from Handy Carl.... Carl is my closest neighbor and man is he handy! He can build, weld, paint anything from custom choppers to custom gourd racks... He's the man! Within minutes of erecting the rack we had birds all over it. He was so impressed he went out that day and bought...

Thanks to the information learned from the great posters to this forum we had a pretty darned good year in '08. It's our 3rd year of putting Martin houses up but our 1st year as "landlords". We ended up with 14 nesting pairs who laid 68 eggs. 65 of those hatched successfully and all but tw...

Hey Nanette! I too have martins here every day in SW Missouri :) 20 to 40 show up in the mornings about 9:00 and hang until 6pm or so... I don't know where they go or if they're "mine" or passersby or what. I know of premigratory roosts in St. Louis and Tulsa but they are hundreds of miles...

I've been wondering why I still have 30 or more birds hanging around as my last nest fledged about the 2nd. Or so I thought :shock: I was out in the yard messing around just now and I saw a bird on the ground and as I went to check it out I realized it was a nearly fledge martin that went running aw...

Hey! Congrats on a really great year! My colony is about 24 miles due west of you and I'm also in my third year... Numbers improve every year and this year I even got my neighbor so excited he went out and put up a new house :lol: I swear some of your birds are visiting me as my last young fledged a...

That's pretty cool Wyatt... You folks down south probably get quite a few passers through for the next few weeks from up here in the midwest and beyond. I was thinking it should pretty much be over here in Missouri but Kathy has some lookers today and I don't know what's happening to my birds.... As...