Purple Martin Forum

Hi all, Sorry for abandoning the thread, had to travel. We fed the baby Sunday night and went out and checked him and fed him again Monday morning. The crew was hanging around trying to get him to fledge and he looked strong enough so since we had to leave, we decided to force the issue a little. We...

We moved last year and have been working on starting a new colony. This year we got one ASY pair and aside from a bout of nest mites, we got through the season with little drama. We had six hatch and they started fledging last Thursday. We had lots of birds hanging out around creating chaos during t...

Interested and have family in Dripping. Can you contact me on personal email dickinsont@mindspring.com please?

Hi all, Bought a new house with two horrifying msrtin houses chock full of starlings. One was the telescoping pole from nature house with the house on top where the pole goes through the middle. It's completely frozen The other pole is triangular and still somewhat lowers up and down but the was pla...

Hi All, Looking for a place on the water on Lake Palestine. We see lots of martin houses around on the waterfront but don't seem to see any that look inhabited and haven't seen a lot of martins in the air. Lots of cliff swallows under every bridge, that's for sure. Anyone out there live on the lake ...

Thanks.

What's involved in actually putting them in place?

Hi All, I have one of the big multi-purpose poles that was originally built by CUE (Diane Oberlander), the 3" square aluminum pole. It's a champ and has been awesome but I have one problem now I'd like to try to figure out how to solve. The aluminum hub that hooks to the cable and goes up and down t...

Here's a link to an old thread with insructions for the movie theater location

https://www.purplemartin.org/forum/view ... st#p236157

Well sadly the page linked above was never updated but the North Texas Group did update a different page on their site to indicate they were having their martin event last weekend. Naturally I saw that after it was over. :-( It didn't clearly indicate that the roost was still at the movie theater bu...

Here is a link with the directions to where it's been the last 2-3 years http://purplemartinlandlordsofnorthtexas.com/events/roost/ I've not seen anything to indicate if they are there this year or not. I'm confident they are somewhere in that general vicinity because I live about 20 miles north of ...

Apparently it's still at the movie theater and there is an event planned for 8 August if anyone is interested

http://purplemartinlandlordsofnorthtexa ... nts/roost/

Anyone spotted the Dallas roost yet? Martins are streaming overhead going south each evening, it's got to be out there.

Still at the movie theater?

Sorry is this has been posted before. Rogers is the place where Penny worked, I'm not sure if she is still there.

http://www.dallasnews.com/news/communit ... ations.ece

My sparr-O-door works so well that I don't need anything else. But I don't have as much HOSP pressure as some people do.

Thanks. I just saw that when I went to check mine

What happened?

Well if anyone is interested in this trap, just reply to the thread and we'll figure it out.

Thanks!

Teri

I don't use my repeating sparrow trap because I have more luck with Spar-O-Doors in my Trio houses so it needs a new home. Probably kind of late to use this year but will be good next winter for someone. Hopefully someone in the DFW area wants it, I'm not too keen on trying to box it up and ship it....

Back in the day, my martins used to arrive spring break week, (this upcoming week) and we never had these super cold weather issues. Last few years they gave been earlier and earlier, this year was the earliest ever and this weather was unbelievable. Sadly I'd say all the ASY's in North Texas died e...

Finally a break in the weather in the DFW area. Only supposed to get in the 40's tonight (28 last night). Highs in the 50's with rain so still slim pickings but hopefully they'll do OK till mid week when normal weather returns. Right before the weather went so bad we had seen a few martins but did n...

Thanks Louise.

Any idea how many times a day they have to feed the adults?

Makes me want to quit my job and go down and help.

Thinking about all these cold downed martins. If the rehabbers force feed them until they are a little stronger but not yet ready to release, will the martins eat live crickets on their own in a cage if they are not trained to eat dead one from the ground. Seems like it would a tremendous amount of ...