Now my martins are back and I am sick to my stomach thinking about them looking for their homes and not finding them.
My question is, will the ones who arrive first and find their old gourd and pole gone, go into the set up that's still here? Or, will they leave and try to find a new place to nest? My neighbor has a set up and he has some vacancies so they won't have far to go.
I am definitely having regrets now though I know at the end of the season I won't have to clean and store so many gourds. The maintenance on 24 gourds and 3 poles was just getting to be too much for me. If I were the type that could just throw everything up and leave it, never do nest checks and never scrub gourds I could probably handle it. But I am way to OCD and crazy over my martins to ever be that way.
Anybody ever downsize like this? What do you believe the martins do in this case?

