Purple Martin Forum

your idea looks good;;;;I just used a plastic dishpan and drilled holes in it an riged it under 1 of my m12k trio;;;robins were trying too build nest in it but I deterred them;;;;jr2

my colony was started with an asy pair and it has grown too 21 pair last year;;;;I have 4 pair this year so far;;wishing you the best of luck;;;jr2

welcome too the forum and wishing you luck;;tree swallows will try too nest in martin houses too;;;jr2

taxi lady;;;;thanks for the well wishes;;;good luck too you too;;robins trying too build nest in my nest material tray that I have hung under 1 of my trio;;;;jr2

watched 4 pair come in this evening;;they seem too be finding mates quick this year;;;jr2

doug;;;congrats on your returnee;;think last night here might be the end of cold;;you are further north I know;;have a great pm season;;jr2

congrats on your first arrival;;;seen 3 on houses here Thursday;;;I seen 1 come out of house this morning;;they must have survived the 20 degrees last night;;looks like the weather is going too warm up;;have a great year;;;jr2

looked out front door about 5;30 with light rain and had a male setting on bamboo rod in front of open compartment on trio in front yard;walked out on front porch with my binoc's too comfirm;watched it for about 20 minutes until it flew then walked too back door too look at trio in back yard and I h...

dave;;still haven't seen no martins here;;;hope you get your colony started this year;;;see you sent in a scout report;; I had one early last year but it didn't stay;;must have been pasing thru;;jr2

still waiting here;too cold the next couple of days anyhow;;my colony is only 4 or 5 years old so guess it's not time for them yet;;looking too the sky;;;;;;;jr2

good arcticle dave;;wish I had lots of open area;;;I was raised on a farm;;wishing you the best this year;;;still no martins here yet either;;;jr2

I just got finished today putting in subfloor in entrance compartments in my s&k houses''i used the 1/2 in foam board that is black on 1 side and silver on other and then I put pieces of roof shingle on top that I had left over;; ;;I cut it so it would not move around and fit tigh I had this lef...

I have 4 s&k houses and 4 trio with cresent entrance with expanded compartments and porches added and I don't have subfloors in the entrance room but I have subfloors in the nesting room;;seems like the martins build the entry room space up with material;;my concern if you have a subfloor in ent...

looks like scout reports all around me but I haven't seen any yet;they should be here soon ;;;good luck too everyone;;;jr2

congrats birdbrat;wishing you and everyone the best this year;;;;I have all my houses ready for them except for a new pole I set yesterday;;will put the house on today;;;already have nest material in but don't have compartments open;didn't get first 1 last year until april 1st;;;;;;maby better open ...

I have the same container that toyinpa has that I bought last year but I went an bought a new container this year;;;;it is not real expensive;;;don't no for sure about the shelf life and I did not find a date on what I bought but I have used over half of it on my 50 compartments as I will have my ho...

Andrew;;;have had 2 of my trio up here for a couple of weeks with 2 spar-a-door in each one with other compartments closed;; I haven't seen or heard a hs here yet[too cold and snow on ground];starlings keep knocking my traps down;;;going too try and get other houses up in a day or 2 as it is going t...

I think all sparrows are protected except hose sparrows;;jr2

wishing you luck with the starlings;;;I though the ohio starlings were too big too but they got in like flies before I added porches;;;hope you get a colony started this year;;;jr2

4th gen martin fan;;;don't have no pics and I am not computer savy;;;;use diagram shown above[apundt-tx post;;leave the middle entry and add porch;;block off other 2 entry[ I pop riviot aluminum on too them] and you can see where too cut holes on side too add tunnels by looking at the cutouts in div...