WHERE ARE THEY ALL GOING

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ccarlin
Posts: 65
Joined: Wed Feb 04, 2009 4:04 pm
Location: Pineland, TX

WHERE ARE ALL THE MARTINS GOING.. IT SEEMS THE MIGRATION IN MY AREA HAS STOPPED. WE HAVE HAVE THE SAME AMOUNT OF BIRDS THAT WE HAVE HAD FOR THREE WEEKS NOW.A FRIEND OF OURS THAT LIVES A FEW MILES AWAY IS HAVING THE SAME PROBLEM... HE USUALLY HAS TWICE THE BIRDS HE HAS BY NOW. ANY ONE ELSE IN OUR AREA HAVING THE SAME PROBLEMS?
Gobbler T
Posts: 1518
Joined: Tue Mar 31, 2009 8:13 am
Location: Mississippi / Columbus

They ain't at my house!

The wife was telling me earlier today that a guy she works with told her thursday that he hasn't seen a single bird this year. He has an established colony of over 50 pair. He was asking her if I had seen any. I have been looking at other established colonys in town and haven't seen birds there ether.

You got me.
Tony


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DornCounty
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Joined: Tue Feb 14, 2012 3:58 pm
Location: Rural SE Kansas
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Trio-Jedi

where there any sorts of weather issues in Brazil this summer(their summer)
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Tim Stover
Posts: 505
Joined: Fri Jan 22, 2010 4:04 pm
Location: Tennesse/Madisonville

they showing up here everyday now for the past few days i thought everyone was getting them some stay some goes on north
2009 2pair 2010 24pair 2011 106 pair
2012 124 pair
2013 145
2014 170 pair
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rrmartins
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Joined: Tue Oct 19, 2010 8:04 am
Location: Round Rock, TX

Tim Stover wrote:they showing up here everyday now for the past few days i thought everyone was getting them some stay some goes on north
Same here, maybe there is a slower northern migration.
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Bulldog1
Posts: 700
Joined: Fri Apr 08, 2011 8:33 am
Location: Mississippi/Hamilton

I live really close (15-20 miles north) to Gobbler T and some established sites here are covered up and some established sites have none. Go figure.

I even thought I saw a sub adult male this evening on my setup. However being new to the game I am not going to report. Maybe I will get to shoot(camera) some tomorrow and will post pics for board to help me identify.
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2015 - 18 Gourds offered - 12 active nests, 62 eggs, 51 fledged
2014 - 18 gourds offered - 12 active nests, 52 eggs, 48 fledged
2013 - 12 gourds offered - 9 pairs, 56 eggs, 52 hatched, 49 fledged
2012 - 12 gourds offered -4 pairs, 20 eggs, 19 fledged
2011 - 6 gourds offered -1 pair, 5 eggs, 5 hatched, 5 fledged !!!!
Brad-AL
Posts: 566
Joined: Tue Nov 11, 2003 2:00 pm
Location: North AL

They're all at my house. I'd guess I've got close to 100 back now. More than normal for this time of year.
High quality plastic gourds with porched, tunnelled SREH are Martin magnets.
Jeremy Shuler
Posts: 94
Joined: Fri Feb 26, 2010 2:51 pm
Location: Missouri,Trenton

Its like that up here too. The amish around here normaly have several by now but none have shown up. and a site down the road from mine had his the 10th of march last year and still no birds anywhere.
Jeremy Shuler
2009-housing up late 1 SY male for a month
2010-2 ASY pairs- fledged 9
2011- 5 ASY pairs building nests and 2 SY pairs several SY males
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