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#Purple martin forums free#
If you have found this site interesting and would like to share it with others, feel free to place a text link on your webpage to or. I'll have to do some research about ways to grease the pole that are environmentally friendly.Source for Natural Gourds South Dakota Birds Option 2 is to grease the pole, but the pole is quite close to some of the garden beds and I don't want something nasty washing into the dirt and ground. I may need to get a thicker/darker netting so they can see it and steer clear. I've just got to figure out at way to affix the netting that won't endanger the Martins while they're flying around. We're debating putting up some netting under the house snakes can be a real problem for Martin colonies and can wipe out an entire group in one go.
The Martins are getting very protective and will now dive-bomb me and fuss at me while I'm working in my garden! I don't really mind that much, but it's definitely a bit unnervineg at first! Now that there are babies we do a daily ground check to make sure no one has fallen out or had an accident. If it rains or gets extra windy we lower the house to half-mast on the pole to stabilize it. I don't want to stress out my young parents or their babies, so I check the nest twice a week. Since our Martin colony is so new, I'm not doing daily nest checks. Second nest has three hatched babies! One other nest is now lined with leaves and ready for eggs, and another nest has eggs. Week 6: All five eggs in the first nest are hatched. Other nests stayed about the same level of incomplete. Week 5: Three babies hatched, two eggs left. Other boxes have small amounts of grass and sticks from where the sub-adults are practicing their building skills. One of the other nests is now lined with leaves and mud. Week 4: We have eggs! The nest with the leaves has five little white eggs in it. Week 3: One of the nests was lined with little leaves, the last step before egg-laying! The other two nests were bigger and a couple of boxes on the back side of the house had sticks and grass in them. Martins are really active and have discovered the butterflies around the passionflower vines. All the images are cropped from about 1/4 frame and only needed the usual sharpening. Its great having a camera and lens that are fast enough to track this speedy bird and it did well even with my 1.7x TC. Week 2: Nest building continued, with lots of leaves and sticks, lots of mud shoring them up. I photographed this male as it blasted off from its house which Ive left out as I dont find it attractive. Lots of sticks and dried grass, and a little mud to hold them together. Week 1: Found the beginnings of nests in three of the boxes. Someone on the PMCA forum saw the pictures and one of the bee magazines (cant remember which one now) purchased the images to use in there magazine for an. We've got 8-9 Martins that have decided to make our yard their home three nesting pairs, and some other sub-adults who are practicing their nest building but not laying eggs yet. The Martins started flying around overhead before we even got the house all the way up the pole, and within about 30 seconds of getting it set they were already checking it out! There's a smal colony of Martin's that have frequented our neighborhood pool, and a couple other neighbors have already put up houses for them. We got the house set up and mounted back in May. It's been a couple of years and I had to track down some missing parts online (this particular martin house is no longer manufactured and the company was bought out) the house needed a good clean, and the mounting system was so badly out of order that my husband and I had to come up with an entirely new pulley system. My Grandmother was surprised I wanted it, especially because it was in really bad shape! But she said I could take it if I really wanted it, and even enlisted some of my uncles to help pull up the pole and mounting system for me. After he died the Martin house was taken down and left in a corner of one of the barns. He was passionate about his Martins and when he started to get sick the Martin house became neglected and the birds stopped coming.
He had it for years, and I have so many fond memories of sitting on his lap on the porch listening to the Martin's sing, and watching them swoop around catching bugs. So a couple years ago I asked my Grandmother if I could have my Grandpa's old Purple Martin House.
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