Purple Martin Forum

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Just wondering if any of the birds visiting your site stayed. Keep us updated
Yvonne

Tony, I have 2 pair that have put so many leaves in their compartments, you can't even tell there is eggs in there. The pair in the trensetter house, build a 2 -3" wall of leaves, against the access door. They have so many leaves and twigs, I can't slide the nest tray out. I had to buy an inspection...

Tony, Last year my female layed eggs in four different compartments. I moved all the eggs to one and closed the other holes off for a day or two. Had 9 eggs, 8 hatched. This year I have one pair in the front house and they built nest in about 4 compartments, but thank goodness she layed all the eggs...

Tony, What a suprise. I have not been on the forum in about 2 weeks. I like others skim the topics just to see if there is a post from you, and boy what wonderful news. I told you last year ,first it was James, then me and you would be next. My prayers were answered. You know now you are going to ha...

Bill, Like Michelle said also, look for that tiny hole on side of roof and line it up with entrance hole and see if that helps. I did feed crickets last year because my pair hatched 8 young, (had nine eggs). I put them right inside the entrance hole though, because I didn't want to attract unwanted ...

Bill,
I have a heritage farms quad pod system. Never had of the the roofs blow off. I did note that the small hollow hole in each roof section goes where the hole is in each compartment.
What kind of rack did you use to hang gourds underneath ?
Yvonne

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Tony, As you know I had my first pair and only pair last year, so I watched them as much as I could. I think you may be on to something. There were gobs of PM around when each of my 5 babies fledged. I noticed about a week before they fledged, and also when each one of them fledged, the female sat o...

Tommie,
I was looking for like a caulking or silicone material I could use to seal all the edges together and make it stronger. I'm not sure that glue it came with will hold. I don't know what material it actually is, but it's the universal nest trays sold by PMCA (Black ones)

Scott,
My prayers are with you. I will always be grateful to you for coming and looking at my set up in Baton Rouge. It sounds like you have helped so many other purple martain landlords. Get well soon. I sent you a private message in addition to this post.
Yvonne

I put together some universal nesting trays I bought from PMCA. I had to cut the width slightly to fit my rooms. The trays are put together with glue. My question is, I want to reinforce the corners and edges to make it stronger and to take away the tiny gaps I see where the edges meet. What is the ...

Good Luck Tony. Still rooting for you. Keep us posted please.
Yvonne

James,
I'm so excited for you. I bet next year, you'll have many pairs.
Yvonne

Louise,
What do you use for spacers ?
Has anyone tried the kids konserve ice packs? It's a ice pack with a sweat free cover.

Laura, I had 8 hatch out of nine eggs laid. My first pair. I can't tell you how I felt when I did nest checks and I would find another one dead.I put many crickets in the compartment on my days off. My female laid eggs in 4 different compartments at first, and I moved them all to one. I can't tell y...

Laura and RR,
I'm so sorry for the loss of that baby. We were all hopeful after RR took him in.
You both did more than a lot of folks would do. All you can do is try.

Tony and Chris,
Thats a good idea. I'll plug all but one hole on houses, that way I can may be get some more sparrows, and I do agree Tony, that birds migrating might be looking to see where housing is.
Thanks for the replys all.
Yvonne

Good luck Tony.
Hope the rest of your martin season is better that the start of it. Hope all remaining fledge.
Yvonne

RR,
please keep us posted on Laura's little one and let us know how he does.
That is great that you could take him in.
Yvonne

Laura or RR or Chris,
keep us posted on the outcome so we all know how he does
Yvonne