Purple Martin Forum

I posted a reply, but I think I misunderstood. Too bad I can't delete.

I live not too far from Eddie, and I think there is a roost somewhere close by. My wife and I still see about 15-30 martins around the house every couple of days. They only come for a little while. And then they vanish.

LOL - No, I NEVER see any snakes around MY house! That is what my wife and I said LAST year. However, we got curious why several of our compartments stopped getting visited, and we started to get a rash of "jumpers". When we finally decided to lower the house, we found an 18" rat snak...

This is our 2nd year trying to attract Martins. We knew we would not get any last year (it was the first year the house went up) but we got a few end of season scouts in August. This year, our house was nearly filled to capacity with pairs. Mostly sub adults, but 2 Second Year pairs. We decided we w...