https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=qHN2mfiPqL0
David Attenborough Purple Martins
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Elijah Clark
- Posts: 52
- Joined: Tue Mar 15, 2016 10:52 pm
- Location: Bend, TX
- Martin Colony History: Put up the colony in 2015 and had a mean and nasty fight with the sparrows, yet one pair stayed and five fledged.
"A good sparrow is a dead sparrow"
2015- 1 pair
2016- 12 pair
2017- 0 pair (predators). Back to square one.
2015- 1 pair
2016- 12 pair
2017- 0 pair (predators). Back to square one.
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James Strickland FL
- Posts: 2249
- Joined: Thu Nov 13, 2003 8:04 pm
- Location: Reidsville NC
- Martin Colony History: 2017 Had a lot visitors no Matins nesting, hoping 2018 will be different.
2018 Had 1 pair
2019 had 30 pair
Thanks for posting. I love watching any show that David does.
PMCA MEMBER
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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
Great video.... I can't tell you how many times I have watched that video.. Every time I see something new in it. That one house in the video in a T-30... I can't imagine how heavy it is.. I have two T-14' and they are heavy enough.. Thanks for sharing. Have a great day
Dave
Dave
PMCA Member
Little Hocking, Ohio
Little Hocking, Ohio
Classic video!
Here is some interesting "behind the scenes" information about that video, provided by our beloved Louise Chambers:
Here is some interesting "behind the scenes" information about that video, provided by our beloved Louise Chambers:
Louise Chambers wrote:The martin segment was included in the final segment of Attenborough's The Life of Birds, which focused on interactions between birds and people. The BBC originally contacted Jamie Hill, then PMCA's director, about filming Black Vultures nesting on office buildings in Brazil. He told them Purple Martins would be of much greater interest, smart man!
The BBC crew filmed Attenborough visiting the oil refinery in Manaus, where martins roost during the nonbreeding season. Not all of those martins are purple martins, either - some are Gray-breasted Martins and Brown-chested Martins, which breed and winter in South America. If you take a close look during the video the Brown-chested are not hard to pick out. Update 4(4) included an article about the refinery roost.
The second portion of the martin segment was filmed at the PMCA's site in Edinboro and some nearby colonies in NW PA and NE OH. We enjoyed working with the crew for several days, and Attenborough came in on the last day to film his onscreen bits at the housing. The book and DVD from The Life of Birds are still available and really good, too. I imagine some libraries have both, & they are worth looking for.
Louise
