Purple Martin Forum

hi dan. your history looks the same as mine one state west. i've been trying or 6 years and have been teased every year with lookers and loners. i hope we both strike gold, no, wait, purple next year. one thing we are getting are loads of tree swallows. we also are getting more rose breasted grosbea...

Ignore this post if you don't want to get lost in tech weenie world, but jump to the last paragraph if you have 1. a spare cell phone and 2. access to a blue-tooth speaker. there you'll see a fairly simple way to get a repeating dawn song going. ok, tech weenies, 2 years ago I found in a drawer an o...

I've been burned before, so I'm tempering my expectations, but while waiting for subbies to get to northern Ohio, look what spent a miserable weather day at my houses yesterday! They are all ASY so might have just been sitting out bad weather on their way to their homes but hope springs eternal here...

Are you sure it's not multiple shots of one bird landing? Look at the identical white marking under the wing in 2 of them.

-ready, willing, and waiting

rrmartins. lighten up.

Hey, this is Tim Boyd from Just south of Sugarcreek, Ohio. I've been trying for 5 years and this year, I've Moved a couple houses down to the pond. They're further from trees, and closer to water, but sadly, pretty far from the house. But this post is regarding my daughter's successful first year an...

you have tree swallows now. did the birds last year have the distinctive loud melodic chirping? if not, i'll bet you have returning tree swallows which are territorial and might defend keeping martins away. if you put a tree swallow style box up about 50' away, and block the opening on the martin ho...

Hi, Dick. Tim Boyd here. I'm surprised you reported ahead of southwest Ohio since they usually report more than a week ahead of your area. I wasn't planning to start my morning drives through Sugarcreek Amish country for a couple weeks yet, but maybe that will change? I'm still getting ready for ope...

Thanks

Could someone who has been around for a while give me a suggestion as to why there was a huge drop off in martin scout sightings in 2016? I was playing around with the scouting reports going back through the last few years, and see that the records show around 3700 reports per year till 2016 when th...

you're welcome. pictures are another problem in this website. a large or high def picture is simply dropped out with no warning that it is too large and needs reduced in quality. However you can link to pictures and videos already on the web. the good thing in the web site is the scout arrival map. ...

rpthomp5, I also struggled to find where to post a new topic in this awkwardly (sorry) designed forum, but write this down so you can find it next time you want to post. From the PMCA home page, click on FORUM then the only thing you can click on that works from there is: find inside the purple rect...

son of a gun, there it is! my ptz camera is 1080p and too high quality for this forum, but the reduced .jpgs came through. as you can see, a snow has just started and i'm guessing we'll get a few more inches tonight. I will post again once the new t14 gets attached to the lower right post and the we...

hey! I am tboydshirt, and my birthday is dec 2, but belated thanks. i'm about to begin my 5th year trying for martins. one thing I've done is to move 2 houses down by the pond. one is a 12 gourd troyer horizontal and the other is a t14 which only has the pole up at the moment. I just snapped a photo...

I was about to give up on this year, but then I got 3 visitors 4 days ago. they hung around for 20 minutes, then left. Now yesterday morning and this morning a lone bird has been checking out houses for about 3 hours, and keying on one troyer vertical gourd. It is awfully white underneath, but not l...

Thanks for the replies and I since could wait no longer so I put up the rest of the houses this morning. as for Billie JR's request here is a snapshot attached reduced to 420kb so it should hopefully appear. Zoom in to see a few swallow houses around the pond. still no subbies reported in my area or...

I'm seeing both swifts and hummingbirds, and for the night niche, I'm trying something new. I put up a large nursery bat house over the winter. I don't know when they arrive but we always have them in the summer starting at dusk and doing the 'night shift' at insect patrol. these are the little brow...

I'm here in North central Ohio waiting my turn to get a shot at martins. I'm in my 3rd (or 4th) year trying in a decent location to get something started. I see that I can use the scout study to check subbies coming to Ohio from last year, and see that they should start showing up any day, but patie...

Just tell those subbies to head north when they arrive! I'm ready and waiting. I see a subbie report in Hillsborough, Ohio this am. I'll keep you posted, Dick.
Tim