I took this picture last night on my ranch as the moon was rising. I used my iPhone 11 Pro and its night mode. Pretty crazy.
I'm away from my Martins this week so just messing around but thought you guys/gals would appreciate a nature photo. I hope you don't mind.
Cool picture I took. Add yours.
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Whippy
- Posts: 1023
- Joined: Thu Jan 19, 2017 11:15 pm
- Location: Plano, Texas
- Martin Colony History: See Signature
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2016 - many visitors
2017 - 1 pair, 3 fledged
2018- 2 pair, 12 fledged
2019 - 4 pair, 21 fledged
2020 - 15 pair, 67 fledged
2021 - 29 pair, 117 fledged
2022 - 35 pair, 130 fledged
2023 - 43 pair, 196 fledged
2017 - 1 pair, 3 fledged
2018- 2 pair, 12 fledged
2019 - 4 pair, 21 fledged
2020 - 15 pair, 67 fledged
2021 - 29 pair, 117 fledged
2022 - 35 pair, 130 fledged
2023 - 43 pair, 196 fledged
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mjfog
- Posts: 450
- Joined: Sat Dec 30, 2017 3:40 pm
- Location: Palm City, FL
- Martin Colony History: 2018 will be my first try. 6 S&K B09s. 29 eggs - 8 fledged
2019 - 12 Troyer Horizontals with tunnels, 6 S&K B09s and 12 B011s all with tunnels. 43 eggs - 36 fledged
2020 - Rack 1 - 6 B011s, Rack 2 - 24 B011s, and Rack 3 - 24 Troyer Horizontals. All gourds have tunnels, porches and crescent/Conley 11 entrances; racks have predator guards. 161 eggs - 88 fledged.
2021 - 54 gourds-214 eggs, 184 hatched, 168 fledged.
2022 - 3 racks of 24 gourds. 363 eggs, 294 hatched, 278 fledged.
2023 - 3 racks of 24 gourds. 321 eggs, 276 hatched, 246 fledged.
2024 - 3 racks of 24 gourds. 330 eggs, 283 hatched, 250 fledged.
2025 - 3 racks of 24 gourds. 347 eggs, 281 hatched, 266 fledged.
Whippy,
Beautiful. I hope my sister and bro-in-law in Richardson got to see it. Mike
Beautiful. I hope my sister and bro-in-law in Richardson got to see it. Mike
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Rafke77
- Posts: 92
- Joined: Sun Jan 12, 2020 10:47 pm
- Location: Plymouth, IN
- Martin Colony History: 2022 First arrival 4/5. 32 pair, 94 hatched. 11 males found dead throughout the season.
2021 Texas deep freeze, first arrived 4/6. 37 pair, 143 hatched, 140 fledged, 21 non viable.
2020 first arrived 3/27. 21 pair, 92 fledged, 9 non viable.
2019 first time with Martin's, first arrived 4/24 10 pair, 24 fledged, 15 eggs non-viable.
Very nice! I love taking night pictures. This is with my Pixel 4xl using it's astrophotography mode. This is a 4-minute picture. when I took this I did not even notice it in the sky at the time, but if you look above the left hand side of my shed you can see a string of lights. I accidentally caught SpaceX's, Starlink Satellites going by, which were launched the day before, and did not realize it until a while later after I was looking at the results.
Obviously you have to shrink the size of these pictures down quite a bit which stinks.
Obviously you have to shrink the size of these pictures down quite a bit which stinks.
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Fuzzmeister
- Posts: 178
- Joined: Mon Sep 25, 2017 9:02 pm
- Location: Saskatchewan Canada
Took this one a couple years ago,it’s an eclipse of the moon, I took it with my iPhone 7 and a spotting scope!
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Dale D
- Posts: 329
- Joined: Tue Jan 30, 2018 10:11 am
- Location: Orlando, Fl
- Martin Colony History: Landlord since 2004
Here is a photo of a night launch of one of the Shuttle missions I took years ago.
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Orlando, FL Landlord since 2004
Offer 42 Cavities Total
Offer 42 Cavities Total
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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
Ill add when i figure out the darn picture!
A good house sparrow is a dead house sparrow.
HOSP: 17. Starlings: 23
HOSP: 17. Starlings: 23
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tor
- Posts: 279
- Joined: Wed Feb 25, 2009 4:35 pm
- Location: Marlboro County, SC
- Martin Colony History: 2025 Capacity: 96
72 Hor / Vert Troyers on 3 X Super-24's.
24 Hor Troyers on Gemini-24.
2026: We'll see.
2025: 92 pair - Fledge: 405
2024: 72 pair - Fledge: 356
2023: 72 pair - Fledge: 342
2022: 72 pair - Fledge: 322
2021: 71 pair - Fledge: 325
2020: 72 pair - Fledge: 336
2019: 70 pair - Fledge: 320
2018: 60 pair - Fledge: 297
2017: 36 pair - Fledge: 189
2016: 16 pair - Fledge: 79
2015: 4 pair - Fledge: 21
Our colony setup
I'm on vacation at Pensacola Beach.
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Jeff
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PMDavid
- Posts: 534
- Joined: Wed May 16, 2018 8:50 pm
- Location: Boyce,Louisiana
- Martin Colony History: 2018 1 lone nut and lots of visitors
2019 6 pair -21fledged
2020 18 pair -60 fledged
2021......to be seen.
24 natural gourds on a satellite rack,9 other gourds scattered around
2-12 compartment trio houses
Rarely see a sparrow or starling,but when I do they don’t last long!
Will have a second satellite rack for the 2022 season and phase out the houses,the martins here strongly prefer natural gourds.
Last summer after a thunder storm. 2 rainbows!
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PMDavid
- Posts: 534
- Joined: Wed May 16, 2018 8:50 pm
- Location: Boyce,Louisiana
- Martin Colony History: 2018 1 lone nut and lots of visitors
2019 6 pair -21fledged
2020 18 pair -60 fledged
2021......to be seen.
24 natural gourds on a satellite rack,9 other gourds scattered around
2-12 compartment trio houses
Rarely see a sparrow or starling,but when I do they don’t last long!
Will have a second satellite rack for the 2022 season and phase out the houses,the martins here strongly prefer natural gourds.
Cc martin ....
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PMDavid
- Posts: 534
- Joined: Wed May 16, 2018 8:50 pm
- Location: Boyce,Louisiana
- Martin Colony History: 2018 1 lone nut and lots of visitors
2019 6 pair -21fledged
2020 18 pair -60 fledged
2021......to be seen.
24 natural gourds on a satellite rack,9 other gourds scattered around
2-12 compartment trio houses
Rarely see a sparrow or starling,but when I do they don’t last long!
Will have a second satellite rack for the 2022 season and phase out the houses,the martins here strongly prefer natural gourds.
CC MARTIN ..... log into pmca on phone
Hit attachments
Go to photo library
Choose photo
Adjust size to medium
Hit “done”
Hit submit
Sent this from I phone
Hit attachments
Go to photo library
Choose photo
Adjust size to medium
Hit “done”
Hit submit
Sent this from I phone
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Whippy
- Posts: 1023
- Joined: Thu Jan 19, 2017 11:15 pm
- Location: Plano, Texas
- Martin Colony History: See Signature
Mike,
Pictures won't post without text in the message body. Plus they gotta be small. Under 500k. I always hit preview prior to posting and if there isn't text in the message body the photo won't show.
Not sure what you're dealing with but thought I'd throw that at ya.
Coolwhips.
2016 - many visitors
2017 - 1 pair, 3 fledged
2018- 2 pair, 12 fledged
2019 - 4 pair, 21 fledged
2020 - 15 pair, 67 fledged
2021 - 29 pair, 117 fledged
2022 - 35 pair, 130 fledged
2023 - 43 pair, 196 fledged
2017 - 1 pair, 3 fledged
2018- 2 pair, 12 fledged
2019 - 4 pair, 21 fledged
2020 - 15 pair, 67 fledged
2021 - 29 pair, 117 fledged
2022 - 35 pair, 130 fledged
2023 - 43 pair, 196 fledged
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Rafke77
- Posts: 92
- Joined: Sun Jan 12, 2020 10:47 pm
- Location: Plymouth, IN
- Martin Colony History: 2022 First arrival 4/5. 32 pair, 94 hatched. 11 males found dead throughout the season.
2021 Texas deep freeze, first arrived 4/6. 37 pair, 143 hatched, 140 fledged, 21 non viable.
2020 first arrived 3/27. 21 pair, 92 fledged, 9 non viable.
2019 first time with Martin's, first arrived 4/24 10 pair, 24 fledged, 15 eggs non-viable.
To add to what else was stated to you, I was having the same issue for a long time posting pictures. I always had to crop the heck out of something too get it to a small enough size, but at that point instead of seeing an entire bird all that was left was a beak
I did some researching and found to add a picture that is a PNG not a JPEG. PNG is a much smaller photo size then a JPEG. And unless you're looking at these at a desktop computer instead of a mobile device you won't really see much of a quality difference. I use an app called Snapseed. In the settings I change it f to saving a picture to PNG and they lowest quality 800px. You shouldn't need to do anything except for hitting the EXPORT button which will save the same picture as it is except in a much smaller file into a different folder onto your mobile device, mine go to my downloads. And in that folder if you press the info for the picture it will tell you it's size, So you know it'll be good to add his attachment on here. Since learning this I barely had to crop anything anymore.
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Fuzzmeister
- Posts: 178
- Joined: Mon Sep 25, 2017 9:02 pm
- Location: Saskatchewan Canada
Practise on how to down load pictures!
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