This is what we need to do for our martins! Spread the knowledge everywhere! My site will be seen by all now! Everyone that drives down Roots rd. will see my setup next spring! They will wonder what the heck is those for! They will talk about it to others and soon my whole community will know I take care of my martins! I just didn’t throw up a house and let any dang bird nest in it! Everyone will know about my martins now! What joy this brings me to spread my knowledge to one and all! I am one happy landlord! Thank you all for my knowledge! I will do my best to give them what they need!
Trees in pink are gone!!!!!
Education, education,education!!!!!
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taxidermy lady
- Posts: 2988
- Joined: Sun Mar 02, 2014 10:21 am
- Location: IL/Ellis Grove
- Martin Colony History: Started trying to attract purple martins in 2012! It's finally happened in 2017! 5 years!!! ASY male and SY female came May 1st, fledged 5 babies!
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MichaelH
- Posts: 586
- Joined: Fri Mar 27, 2015 10:10 am
- Location: IL/Gillespie
- Martin Colony History: 2015 28 cavities 2 pairs
2016 big upgrade 56cavities 16 pairs great year
2017. 76 cavities 36 pairs
2018. 146 cavities
Yes sharron it is great to spread the word and get people at the very least to even know what a martin is the more people know the better,I gave one of my employees my old trio so he has it up and ready to go for the season so it’s is a great thing to educate people
2018 146 cavities.
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C.C.Martins
- Posts: 3368
- Joined: Fri Apr 14, 2017 11:15 am
- Location: Corpus Christi Tx
- Martin Colony History: 2016- Visitors.
2017- 5 pair. 15 fledged
2018- 18 pair. 85 fledged
2019- 17 pair. 81 fledged
2020- 25 pair. 111 fledged
2021- 28 pair. 118 fledged
2022- 33 pair. 151 fledged
2023- 33 pair. 165 fledged
2024- 40 pair. 185 fledged
2025- 40 pair. 181 fledged
HOSP:
Home colony: mix natural, super, Troyer and excluder gourds, enlarged compartment house. All SREH.
Satellite colony: Oso Bay Preserve: 49 PMCA excluder gourds; 16 room Lonestar Goliad with Modified Excluder entrances.
2019: Visitors
2020: 3 pair, 11 fledged
2021: 10 pair, 30 fledged
2022: 11 pair, 35 fledged
2023: 18 pair, 101 fledged
2024: 39 pair, 181 fledged
2025: 51 pair, 216 fledged
PMCA member
Too true, seems like they are beset on all sides by predators and habitat encroachment; makes those landlords who care all the more important. Spread the word Sharon, the birds will benefit, and so will they.
A good house sparrow is a dead house sparrow.
HOSP: 17. Starlings: 23
HOSP: 17. Starlings: 23
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taxidermy lady
- Posts: 2988
- Joined: Sun Mar 02, 2014 10:21 am
- Location: IL/Ellis Grove
- Martin Colony History: Started trying to attract purple martins in 2012! It's finally happened in 2017! 5 years!!! ASY male and SY female came May 1st, fledged 5 babies!
I will do my best! I’ll let the martins do the talking! They’ll hear them and wonder why I have them and they don’t! 
Sharon from southern Illinois
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John Evans
- Posts: 323
- Joined: Mon Mar 17, 2014 3:56 pm
- Location: Cocoa Beach Florida
Exciting Sharon, With your knowledge and enthusiasm here's hoping you can create some new landlords. The martins really need them!
Have great holiday season and remember not that many months your birds will be back with more!
John
Have great holiday season and remember not that many months your birds will be back with more!
John
PMCA Member
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taxidermy lady
- Posts: 2988
- Joined: Sun Mar 02, 2014 10:21 am
- Location: IL/Ellis Grove
- Martin Colony History: Started trying to attract purple martins in 2012! It's finally happened in 2017! 5 years!!! ASY male and SY female came May 1st, fledged 5 babies!
Thanks John! I always do my best! I will definitely be spreading my success! If they come back!!!!
Good luck in 2018!!!
Good luck in 2018!!!
Sharon from southern Illinois
Oh Sharon...I so hope they DO come back!!!!
Those birdies are Sooooo weird!
I've been trying for 30 years to get a great big colony and it has NEVER happened! I've had a pair or two one year, then none the next, then a pair, then none on and off since 1987 when I put up my first house in Deer Park (near Houston), TX.
I'm in Florida now and last year was my first year but I only had a few visiting birds, none liked it enough to make a nest.
I'm back at it again this year, getting the house ready now so that I can be up and running early enough to see if i can attract new comers...
GOOD LUCK to you and me both!!!!
Keep teaching! I know I do!!!
Those birdies are Sooooo weird!
I've been trying for 30 years to get a great big colony and it has NEVER happened! I've had a pair or two one year, then none the next, then a pair, then none on and off since 1987 when I put up my first house in Deer Park (near Houston), TX.
I'm in Florida now and last year was my first year but I only had a few visiting birds, none liked it enough to make a nest.
I'm back at it again this year, getting the house ready now so that I can be up and running early enough to see if i can attract new comers...
GOOD LUCK to you and me both!!!!
Keep teaching! I know I do!!!
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Dave Reynolds
- Posts: 2442
- Joined: Mon Jan 31, 2011 4:35 pm
- Location: Little Hocking, Oh.
- Martin Colony History: Satellite Site “Oxbow Golf Course”..
2018 - 15 Pair, 36 Fledged
2019 - 26 Pair, 97 Fledged
2020 - 30 Pair, 137 Fledged
2021 - 30 Pair, 144 Fledged
2022 - 27 Pair, 125 Fledged
2023 - 31 Pair, 130 Fledged
2024 - 41 Pair, 198 Fledged
2025 - 44 Pair, 168 Fledged
Home Site "Little Hocking, Ohio".
2019 - 1 Pair, 5 Fledged
2020 - 1 Pair, 4 Fledged
2021 - 8 Pair, 36 Fledged
2022 - 13 Pair, 46 Fledged
2023 - 16 Pair, 84 Fledged
2024 - 22 Pair, 104 Fledged
2025 - 28 Pair, 83 Fledged
Tony —- Good luck to you this year..... Hope all goes well in 2018 ..
Dave
Dave
PMCA Member
Little Hocking, Ohio
Little Hocking, Ohio