Purple Martin Forum

John - I hope you're generally right about how martins propagate other colonies a few miles away. I am trying to get a small house started for the third year in a row (NE Houston area) and I am puzzled why I am having difficulties. I started another house about 10 yrs ago only two miles from my curr...

Matt - when you get a minute can you share more background info? For example, location of the cam (gourd or in house compartment), looks like you're using a small light (?), what type of camera are you using? How are you delivering that to internet in real time?

Thanks!

Fantastic shot - thanks for posting

Hello Chuck - as Louise said it looks like a snipe to me. We used to hunt those in South Louisiana 30+ years ago. They are good-tasting game birds, similar to dove. They fly very high and then do a sort of a dive-bomb thing. When they take off, they fly every which way but loose and stay low for a w...

Thanks, John. The bluebirds had just started nesting and I relocated it to a newly-installed blue bird box. However, they didn't follow-up on that. So, I'm hoping that, this year, any blue birds will see that nice little cedar (or whatever) box, that is about 30 ft away and go there.

Thanks for the quick responses. I don't have much of a starling problem - but the sparrows can be an issue. I've already got a sparrow trap at the ready and a pellet gun. The holes are....well, I'm not sure. They're not perfect circles, but are not full SREH either. But, again, not too much worried ...

Hello everyone - I'm new here (thanks for setting me up Louise) and thought I'd do a brief intro. I live in Northeast Houston in a residential area and am trying to start a new colony. The PM house came to me used and appears to be an earlier generation of a Nature House 12-room set up (pulley and r...