|
| Photo Gallery | Birding Locations | FL State Bird | Bird Links | Your Letters |
| Bird Lists | Our Store | Purple Martins | Rare Bird Phones | Weather |
|
|
| Photo Gallery | Birding Locations | FL State Bird | Bird Links | Your Letters |
| Bird Lists | Our Store | Purple Martins | Rare Bird Phones | Weather |
|
We had
: |
   |
total eggs
in |
|
nests |
| Hatched : |   |
Total Fledged | |
|
We put up our housing on January 1st, after thoroughly cleaning and repairing the gourds. We pulley systems on each pole to aid in lowering and raising the gourd racks. We replaced the pully cable on pole 3 with a new galvanized cable. The gourd rack on poll three has been replaced this year. Pole 2 has two Extruder crescent gourds. The OWL (Crow) guards we added to all of our Super Gourds appear to be doing their job. Poll three as two new Extruder cressant gourds this year. The OWL guards added to the Super Gourds has caused a few of the gourds to split down the seams. The seam issue was fixed with an application of exterior hot glue. We plan to slowly replace the Super Gourds with the Extruder cressent gourds. These gourds have a attachable porch and Owl (Crow) guard. The birds appear to like them. |
|
Our site
has three polls, with two poles of 6 gourds each (Super Gourd, Extruder cressant goards and Troyer
gourds). The third pole has 14 Super Gourds and two Extruder cressent gourds with porch and guards. The polls are about 30
feet from the house near the shore of a small lake here in Titusville,
Florida.
So far becoming Purple Martin landlords in 1998, we have learned a lot, seen over 700 successful fledges, and received great pleasure from these lovable, gregarious, wild birds. |
|
|
Our first overnighters this season were recorded on 1/13/2011.
Do you have a Purple Martin question?
Here is a look at a recent Tropic Winds graphic from the National Weather Service. The wind direction (the white arrows) are a good predictor for migration paths. A flow from Central America and Mexico toward Northern Cuba and Florida increases the likely hood of seeing more Purple Martins in Florida during the following few days. A similar wind flow pattern up through Mexico into the southern states is an excellent predictor of martins in that area.
Questions, requests or comments, just email us:
 |
| Photo Gallery | Birding Locations | FL State Bird | Bird Links | Your Letters |
| Bird Lists | Our Store | Purple Martins | Rare Bird Phones | Weather |
