Purple Martin Forum

Keep the chin up, I know it's hard to see them fly away. This is my 11th year and I finally got martins to stay.A ASY male arrived on may 26th and two SY females the next day. Now he's been a busy guy, because both nest has eggs. My problem is going to be when the babies hatch and only the one femal...

This year is my first with a pair of martins. The last two years I had a SY male hang around for three weeks. I live three miles from pokegama lake colony, so I lucked out and got one of his ASY males and he found a SY female.

This is my first year that I have a pair of martins, and it's been fun watching them. They have started building a nest but it has been really cool up here. There was frost on the roof and on the cars . they would sit up on the perch and wait for it to get warm enough for the bugs to fly. Had a few ...

They are just starting to show up in Minnesota. So I got a number of weeks before the subies come up. Tenth time is a charm right?

Just keep trying. I have been trying for 10 years, and the last 2 years had a SY male show up for 3 weeks then go after not finding a female. This spring we chopped down a large cotton wood tree to open up the yard more. Keep up the faith

Kirt