wow! 2 years on 2 AA batteries including ir night lights? I'm interested because if you check my last year's posts, you'll see my efforts at a similar thing. it's a point/tilt/zoom camera which I can control from the keyboard and review recorded activities. unfortunately, I'm still waiting for marti...

here's to 2019! I've been trying earnestly for 3 years now with several housing styles but no keepers yet. i'm putting up a satellite site at my daughter's place on the top of a hill and wide open flyways hoping to at least get a colony going there. at home I've cut down a row of big trees between m...

awesome year, dick and cathy!. still waiting here, but not for want of effort. stop by and see some of the changes made with more to come after I get over my setback (fractured spine) heals. over the winter i'll see to getting more trees cleared in the area.
tim and sharon

despite my best efforts I failed to attract martins this year but I have a plan! mike troyer (known as sugarcreek in the forum) is on vacation. he has a thriving colony with at least 41 active nests. so, while he is gone, I plan to go to his place and steal 100 pre fledged babies, bring them here, a...

ray of hope. dawnsong is off but still hoping for a late start here in ohio

that was my hope last year. had a male all summer, but no return for me. could have died over winter though.

at the end of my second year trying everything I can think of I have: 4 cd alarms playing the dawn song at assorted times through the day. 40 t14 style holes with nesting boxes, some with thermostatic heating. 28 troyer horizontal gourds. 16 vertical gourds of a generic variety. no starlings. no suc...

well done, dick and cathy! if I ever get martins, I will tend them just like you do.
tim

mike, next time you stop by, I could give you my camera app for controlling my point, tilt, zoom camera if you want. you need to be inside my local net for the first time, then it will work from anywhere. I won't give it out to many people simply because other lookers might move the camera and forge...

i'm glad I got to meet you, dick and cathy! you will definitely help the population in ohio. i'm still in the waiting mode here. I've done about all I can do here including dropping a bunch of pines to give a clear path to the pond on the north, and a longer glide path to the south. don't forget to ...

just wondering from longtime members, is this an unusually low turnout year for subadults? as I watched this year in the scout arrival study, the adult population grows to nearly 3000 sightings, but even a month later the subadult spottings barely crack 300. was it this way in past years, or has a w...

hey, pmlover, would a drive by some day be ok with you someday? i'm a wannabee only 30 miles north of new concord if I've figured it right. we are trying everything we can think of and this is our second year trying.
thks, tim boyd of Sugarcreek.

thanks, kim! thought i'd tried everything... have a good martin season.

i, too, am patiently awaiting my chance at subbies in north central ohio. good luck to all of us... sorry to change the subject here, but i have started new topics before, but can never remember how to proceed to get to 'new topic'. i might not have permission, though i was able to do this before. i...

would you be ok with a visit some nice evening from the north? i replied earlier that i am 30 miles north of you and . my wife and i have 2 friends who like small motorcycle trips and we'd love a chance to head your way for dinner at a local spot and a quick looksee at your martin setup. i don't kno...

could you spare just 2 or 3 of them? send them 30 miles north to sugarcreek. thanks

it's 6am and still dark but i made a quick, raising tray overnight and put scrambled eggs on it. i also lowered the neighboring gourd rack to remove a hsp trap and while down, put egg on some of the landings. i have a security cam zoomed in on it so i can review any action. here's hoping they know t...

this is unbelievable. i had a single juvie male all last summer, but no pairs or nests. so i was ready, but waiting for the 'yellow dots' to arrive in a month. anyway, at 7:41pm tonight in central ohio, a pair landed, went into one of my heated holes (i have heat tape wrapped around the core of a t1...

if your martin house has the t14 look, you might want to check out my first post this year describing my use of heat tape. it is intended for wrapping barn water pipes in the northern winters to keep them from freezing. i wrapped a 25' length round and round the core before connecting the 4 sides to...

here's a thought on that. i read somewhere (forum or in the book, "a purple martin journey") that according to banding studies, most martins change mates regularly. most animal species exhibiting sexual dimorphism (males looking different than females) will not mate for life. each year the surviving...