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Occupancy Rate: 100%
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We put up our housing on January 1st, after thoroughly cleaning the gourds. We added a new pully system to pole number one. This pole also has the two new Extruder cresent gourds. We retired our last home-grown natural gourd this season. After 7 years of service it had developed a small crack un the bottom and we did not want to trust it for this season. We added owl guards to all of our Super Gourds because of crow predation problems last year. |
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Our site
has three polls, with two poles of 6 gourds each (Natural and Troyer
gourds), and the third pole with 16 Super Gourds. The polls are about 30
feet from the house near the shore of a small lake here in Titusville,
Florida.
So far in our seven seasons of being Purple Martin landlords we have learned a lot, seen 563 successful fledges, and received great pleasure from these lovable, gregarious, wild birds. |
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Our first overnighters this season were recorded on 1/19/2008.
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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.
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