First arrivals reported in TN & OK!

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Louise Chambers
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Posts: 6208
Joined: Tue Nov 04, 2003 1:07 pm
Location: Corpus Christi, TX

The flood of arrivals in recent days is moving martins to the first inland tier of states :-) Welcome home!
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Stretch
Posts: 192
Joined: Wed Sep 29, 2010 2:25 pm
Location: White House, TN

YAH! WELCOME HOME IS RIGHT! Inclimate weather moving into TN on Sunday but looks to be short lived!!!!!!!!!!!!! Time to get housing up!!!!
2011 19 Pair, 108 eggs, 74 fledged
2010 9 Pair, 44 eggs, 30 fledged
Mast 1: western cedar T18 + 4 SREH tunneled gourds - 3"x3"x24' alum. custom fab mast
Mast 2: 11 Horizontal Gourds with custom Jack Petty entrances +6 SREH tunneled supergourd - 2in deluxe 18.
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Lewis
Posts: 246
Joined: Tue May 26, 2009 3:21 pm
Location: Georgia/Newnan

After reading this I checked the scout report again and sure enough; two reports near me in north Georgia. One in LaGrange and another in Roopville both reporting today. I looked out the window at lunch time and there was an ASY female setting one one of my racks. I went out an open some of the houses and gourds while she circled around. An Asy female showed up first last year on 2/24. I think this is the same bird.

Lewis
Spring Garden Keeper
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CHenry
Posts: 126
Joined: Tue Mar 25, 2008 11:18 am
Location: Tuttle, OK

My gourd rack comes out of storage today! Need to go find some pine straw. Wonder if I could use wheat stray instead? I already got that. hmmm.
Anyway, a welcome home party is in order!
4th season Landlord - new Super Gourd system this year!

March 25 and they have finally arived!
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jr 2
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Joined: Fri Jun 17, 2011 3:20 pm
Location: ohio,proctorville(just across ohio river from huntington,west virginia)

i got my 2 m12k houses out the other day and put them up and i mixed wheat straw with some left over pine needles that i had and i used elvated sub floors in the back of 6 by 12 cavity that i put the nest material on;;;already caught 2 sparrows in my spara-a- door traps on the houses;;waiting on the martins and watching scout reports;;;jr2
PMCA member; s 2011 2 pair fledged 3; 2012 3 asy pair,4 sy pair,2013 8 asy pair,6 sy pair;2014 19 asy pair,2 sy pair
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