Purple Martin Forum

While watching my birds this AM I noticed a female asy fall from her gourd. When I picked her up to see what the problem was i could not visually see anything physically wrong with her.After checking her very closely with my fingers I found a rubber band had pinned one of her wings to her body. I th...

Thanks Mark, looking forward to meeting you this spring.

Hey rrmartins, wishing you a great season and continued growth at your site.

Hey Tlragsdale, thanks for your response it brought a smile to my wife and I when we read it. We know we are blessed to live where we do. We have martins and nice weather most of the time.

We hope when spring comes that lots of martins find your place! Jim

Hi Mary, hope you have a full house this season.

Thanks Debbie, wishing you the very best for 2014.

Thanks Steve,I've never had 4 show up at one time like today,what a treat!!

About 4 pm today 3 very excited ASY males and 1 ASY female got home.They were in and out of gourds for 20-30 mins. then they were off to feed till just before dark.

As day turns to night there is 4 happy birds and 2 very happy landlords here at this site.

Hey David,good looking rack. Good advice on the gourds too. I started with a plastic house and was advised to add gourds.

We hosted 8 pair our first year and 22 pair last year, all in gourds. I still have plastic house up but have yet to have the first pair stay overnight.

Good luck, Jim

I heard them before I saw them.We had a male and female showed up this A.M.They circled the housing then they both set on power line for a little while. The female flew up and started feeding high above the housing while the male investigated the housing,once he was satisfied he joined the female. T...

Hey Guys, thanks for your comments and suggestions. I will be making some changes to predator guard this fall. Once again, I just love the forum, what a knowledge base!! I would like to see a better way to add photos to a post.

2010 MARTIN COLONY On February 11 when 3 ASY males showed up at my site I thought they were just passing thru. I was glad to see them, but being that this was not an established site I posted to the forum that they were on their way north. From that day on there was always one male and sometime 3 th...

Hey Gary, this is my first year having martins. I had 3 ASY males showed up on 2-11-10 and they have built a small colony. I have 7 pair with 3 nest having 15 young fledge already. There are 4 nests left with 20 young that should fledge in the next 2-3 weeks. When doing my nest check on 6-6-10 I fou...

Scott, when I saw the bird had her wing caught, I got her wing free and got her out as soon as I could. I didn't even think there might be a second problem, lesson learned ! I looked at both the TVG and the THG, I see what you are talking about. There is a gap on mine that looks to be about 1/16 of ...

Scott, I have round holes on all gourds. I hope yesterday will turn out to be a one time issue, rather than a on-going problem with the TVR gourd. I will keep a close check on the TVR holes, to see if this is repeated. I am going to call Andrew Troyer tomorrow to let him know about the TVR hole wing...

I have a Gemini 2 gourd rack, with 10 Troyer Vertical gourds, 10 Troyer Horizontals and 4 Exculder gourds, all with round holes. I don't have a established site, but have had 3 ASY males, 1 SY male and 1 female here for the last few nights. I have had 1-3 ASY males at site since February 11. Late th...

We have two ASY males staying at our place tonight. These are the first martins I have seen this year. I hope they will stay around a few days and let the weather warm before moving on. We had a third ASY male join the two that came in on Thursday, today.2-13-10. We had a high of 49 degrees today an...

Hey Mitch,We have had the same BB couple for I know the last three years. I guess they are just use to us being around as I have never been dive bombed. I think they just get to the point that they trust you for looking out for them. These birds are such a pleasure to have around .We enjoy having th...

we had a very quite weekend compaired to yours!!

It is just amazing how with a simple question one can get real time information that is so useful. Thanks, Jim