A senior citizen and former martin landlord read an article in our local paper featuring my purple martin colony; he now resides in an assisted living complex. The article bought back old memories of by gone days with his own martins. He organized a bus trip to my place so his co -residents could see an active martin colony. The bus load of resident’s arrived on a Sunday afternoon and it just so happened at that time I had a group of rehab martins I could hand feed so I gave a demonstration of the feeding and briefed them on martins. The feeding was a big hit, especially with the little old lady’s when the young birds opened up for crickets. Some of the residents took turns holding a martin while it took a cricket. The very next day on Monday another bus load of resident’s arrived to see my colony and I gave another feeding demonstration. A few days later the former landlord arrived at my place with one of the caretakers to view some very busy martin activity at roost time. This former landlord is nearly 100 and still loves Martins!
