Purple Martin Forum

Hi Dave,
I do my best checks from the back doors. My goal is to put the new doors on all my holes on both houses for next year. After this year is done but don't want to scare off my pair for next year when they come back.

Hi Dave I made the opening 3" to match the tunnel opening. I really like the owl guards I put on. I'm thinking of only puting then on one of the two houses I have at the end of the season. Both of my houses have deep cavities. I don't want to have too much of a change being I only have one pair this...

What are your thoughts on the modifications of this door?

I just bought 4 troyer gourds with Conely2 holes. I would like to put one in side the gourds to watch them and the baby's. I will put up the gourds this fall after my Martin's leave. I have a guy to help me set it up but not sure what type of camera to get that will work with YouTube live stream and...

Hi all,
i would like to put a camera in one of my gourds next year. what is the best camera i can put in it to put it on Youtube so my family can watch the martins with me?
My father love purple martins and he dosnt have the ideal place to put a house up.
thank you
Rob

HI ALL,
Thanks for all the advice about SREH holes. I took 6 of my crescent hole and made them bigger and ordered some Conley 2 adapter plates on .
this morning i had 2 adult martins going in and out..

Update. After taking all my round holes off my house, starlings are gone, Martin's left too. What holes easiest for Martin's to get into? I watched an adult male trying to get in crescent and excluder hole with no luck. wondering if the Conley holes are easier for them to get into? I did figure out ...

After last year watching PMs come and go to the surrounding neighbors Martin houses. I changed a few hole to round. My bad! I have 5 neighbors in a mile radius that have Martin houses with round holes and almost all full. So I tried round holes. Is there a way to modify a Muslum house with conely2 h...

Thank you for the responses. Im sure what a colony 2 hole looks like. I have 2 trio pioneer houses with crescent and excluder hole. I was using round hole to attract Martin's after getting a pair of adult birds the starlings moved in and chased the martins away.

Hi all, this is my second year here in Sioux city Iowa as a PM landlord. In the past week I had a pair of adult martings staying in my house until two days ago a pair of starlings moved in. Haven't seen the pair of martins since.

What is the best hole to use?
Thank you
Rob