Purple Martin Forum

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I want to practice attaching pictures. Never been good at it. Adding one eight inch aluminum plates over three quater inch wood also prevents wing entrapment.

I used 1/8 inch aluminum straps 2 inches wide I cut out a crescent opening and screwed it to the outside of the Woodhouse the opening is as smooth as a baby's bottom and the Martins love it going very easily

I have had a single pair of TS at my site for several years. That pair will not allow other TS anywhere near my colony. If the TS get a little upity. My martins use a coordinated whole colony effort to evict TS from the better housing units to a unit which no martin wants.

Raymond,
One way to search is from the "scout report". From the home screen. Piick research/scout reports arrival. Select LA. Go to 2013. You will see towns and names of land lords in your area. Hope this helps. Stephen

Why spend time trapping and shooting starlings? Martins use either enterance equally well. With sreh starling are not a problem. Don't make it easy for starlings.

I was camped near Wheeler's Point, Rainy River for 4 days last week end. I was fifteen feet from one of twenty or so martin houses scattered around the campground. I talked to the landlord and he said quote: "I don't do anything for the martins except put the houses back up when they fall down....

The house is open on the inside. 1"X 3' cedar boards/ pictures of the inside of the house.
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There are no solid walls on the inside of this house, so the house is not soo heavy. The house weights about 250 pounds. The post is 5"x5" X 16'. The house is constructed with 1"x3" and 1"x2" cedar board frame, screwed and glued. 4 sections, roof, center with 5 units on...

First post. I started 20 years ago. No martins until I started reading the Forum. The last four years one breeding pair to 3 to 7 to 19 last year. My yard is small 76 feet on the lake and trees encroach some but is open to the east. That helps a lot. Here in Minnasnownta the 1st martins return aroun...