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stan davison
Posts: 715
Joined: Thu Feb 17, 2005 7:48 pm
Location: Tulsa Oklahoma

Was out back with my dogs and heard a martin. I thought it might be a mocker. I looked up to the west and sure enough I saw an asy male flying fast to the north. I am convinced this is a migrating Martin and not from my colony. I am one block from the Arkansas river. I will not post this as an official scout report. However I am willing to bet someone north of here will be reporting shortly. I will keep an eye on the sky. 84 degrees here tomorrow. Tooooo early.
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Fireflyfisherman
Posts: 95
Joined: Mon Feb 16, 2015 5:26 pm
Location: TX/Mckinney
Martin Colony History: 2021 New Site - Fingers Crossed
2020 - 30 pair (122 Fledged)
2019 - 30 pair (120 Fledged)
2018 - 14 pair (52 Fledged)
2017 - 6 pair (20 Fledged)
2016 - 1 Pair (5 Fledged)
2015 - 1 Pair (3 Fledged)

A dirty old mocking birds fooled me the other day! I got so excited that I said it out loud only to realize a few seconds later that a mockingbird was tricking me.
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DornCounty
Posts: 2169
Joined: Tue Feb 14, 2012 3:58 pm
Location: Rural SE Kansas
Martin Colony History: .
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Trio-Jedi

kind of funny.. I thought I heard on yesterday, but never did get eyes on it.
2017 - Home & Public Colonies - 300 Cavities
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Okie
Posts: 541
Joined: Mon Apr 11, 2016 3:26 pm
Location: Claremore, OK
Martin Colony History: 2016 Informed landlord now Have 2 pair returning from 2015 That is a miracle. Hoping for a very successful year, sparrow population on decline.
First house was plastic with crescent holes Had martins within a few days. Ignorant landlord gradually lost them
Then got Trio House and still lost most of them. Lots of sparrows

stan davison wrote:Was out back with my dogs and heard a martin. I thought it might be a mocker. I looked up to the west and sure enough I saw an asy male flying fast to the north. I am convinced this is a migrating Martin and not from my colony. I am one block from the Arkansas river. I will not post this as an official scout report. However I am willing to bet someone north of here will be reporting shortly. I will keep an eye on the sky. 84 degrees here tomorrow. Tooooo early.
OMG Stan. This season is setting up for a late "hard" freeze. This spring weather usually does not last into summer w/o a hard freeze. I hope those martins don't get fooled by this beautiful weather. My house is still down & the gourds packed away. What to do. What to do.
Okie
PMCA member
2016 Started with 2 pair, 1 pair abandoned after HOSP destroyed eggs
1 pair= 6 eggs, 6 fledged
2017 1 pair so far, But they abandoned before nest complete for ?reason? Now Bridless and joined the Wannabes
2018 One pair ASY male SY female 5 eggs, 5 fledged
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Okie
Posts: 541
Joined: Mon Apr 11, 2016 3:26 pm
Location: Claremore, OK
Martin Colony History: 2016 Informed landlord now Have 2 pair returning from 2015 That is a miracle. Hoping for a very successful year, sparrow population on decline.
First house was plastic with crescent holes Had martins within a few days. Ignorant landlord gradually lost them
Then got Trio House and still lost most of them. Lots of sparrows

BTW I'm still catching an occasional starling. These pesky HOSP are NOT interested in the Blaine. They come take one bite & fly off. They have completely spoiled my plans of trapping many, many this winter. I'm so nervous of a repeat of last year when a single male destroyed a pair's eggs & ran them off. There are lots of males visiting creating a vision of a repeat. Bahh Hummm Buggg!
Okie
PMCA member
2016 Started with 2 pair, 1 pair abandoned after HOSP destroyed eggs
1 pair= 6 eggs, 6 fledged
2017 1 pair so far, But they abandoned before nest complete for ?reason? Now Bridless and joined the Wannabes
2018 One pair ASY male SY female 5 eggs, 5 fledged
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stan davison
Posts: 715
Joined: Thu Feb 17, 2005 7:48 pm
Location: Tulsa Oklahoma

Okie, that Martin did not roost here tonight as I suspected. Starlings are thick here but not showing interest in my housing. The sparrows are relentless. I'm trapping up to 10 per day. They are thinning out though
I hope my Martin's don't show up until March.
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flyin-lowe
Posts: 3789
Joined: Wed Mar 29, 2006 8:49 am
Location: Indiana/Henry Co.

I think you should post the report if you have confirmed it was a martin. Isn't the purpose of the scout report technically to track migration? I might be wrong about that but feel the PMCA is concerned about where the birds are, whether they "belong" at your colony or not. Maybe someone will chime in on that aspect.
2026 HOSP 28
2025 62 pair HOSP 20
2024 60 pair, HOSP 44
2023 60+ pair, HOSP 8
2022 60 nests with 262 eggs, HOSP 14
2021 62 pair, HOSP 9
2020 42 nest, HOSP 8
2019- 31 pair
2018- 15 pair 49 fledged
2017 3 SY pair, 12 eggs , fledged 10. 4 additional lone SY's
2016 1 pair fledged 4
2015 Visitors
2014 Visitors
2013 Moved 6 miles, 1 pair fledged 2.
2012 30 pair fledged 100.
2011 12 pair 43 fledged.
2010 5 pair 14 fledged.
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marcus
Posts: 314
Joined: Tue May 10, 2016 10:21 pm
Location: Fairland OK
Martin Colony History: Mom n Dad had a plastic 12 unit martin house with some martins as long as I can remember. In 2013 they had 1 pair. I don't think they fledged any. I then started learning how to take care of martins and in 2014 we took that house down and put up a Troyer 18 gourd rack. We had 7 pair with 28 fledged.That summer I built a T-14 (I was only 12). I was also given 4 natural gourds that I hung beneath the T-14. In 2015, we had 23 pair although only 22 pair fledged young. They fledged 88 young. In 2016, we had 36 pair, 210 eggs, 163 hatched, 149 fledge!! One pair fledged 2 broods. In 2017, I had 36 pair with 35 fledging young. They laid 204 eggs, hatched 155, and fledged 152.

I agree with flyin-Iowe. That is crazy that they're that far north! I am afraid I need to be getting my gourds out soon. Okie, did you finish out project martin watch or did you stop several nest checks early due to the age of your nestlings? Because in the update, they have last year's summary and a purple dot for everyone who sent in info and there is only one in OK?
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