Purple Martin Association of the Dakotas

Hi Dave, Good to here your Mentee had visitors, lets hope its Nesters next! Best O Luck with your Mentor program. I haven't hosted, Nesting PM yet, so I'm no Mentor, but we did have a PM roost in the T-8 for nearly a month in 2014, /w other visitors stopping by. Another friend /w a new T-8 hasn't re...

HELLO, A pair of friends and neighbors who also each, raised a new T-8 House /w SREH for spring 2014, each had TS pair check-out an open compartment and start bringing in nest material, so I offered to lower and close the T-8 and to set -up alternate housing for the TS, which they accepted in a coup...

GUMORNIN, AL HANSON, CAROLINE, DAVE DUIT, PERRY (other landlords) Any updates or progress reports on your colony's? Nest numbers, compared to 2013? (growth) Is egg laying complete, any new SY birds? Are all eggs hatched, percentage? Are chicks midterm, any near fledge? Any porch predation, moisture ...

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SOUNDS LIKE CAGES HAVE BEEN FAIRLY EFFECTIVE IN MOST CASES. THEY MAY OFFER AN ALTERNATE ESCAPE ROUTE. ESPECIALLY IF P.M. CAN SEE THE ATTACKER IN ADVANCE. THAT BRINGS ME TO THE QUESTION OF PORCHES AS NEET AS IT SEEMS TO OBSERVE THESE BIRDS ON THE PORCH, MIGHT THAT SAME PORCH/CANOPY BE THE UNDOING OF ...

MORNIN CAROLINE

CONGRATS TO THE PM ON THEIR EGG PRODUCTION.

SOUNDS LIKE A GOOD START, TO A LATE SEASON.

DOES A NEST SPUN INTO SHAVINGS, LEAVE THE EGGS RESTING ON THE FLOOR

SO HOW MANY ASY/SY PAIR DO YOU ESTIMATE ARE NESTING AT YOUR SITE?

GOOD MORNIN,

I RECIENTLY SAW A PIC. OF THE LARGE V TOP FEEDER TRAP FOR S/S.

HAS ANYONE BUILT A SCALE MODEL TO TRY, WITH ANY SUCCESS

Caroline, That's sad, to lose even one! I have no clue who done it, but if the feather group was that tight, Id guess it was devoured right on the ground! Maybe someone with knowledge on this will Swoop - in /w a thought. One question's been plaguing me for some time, If our goal is to increase PM n...

Welcome to the Forum, Caroline! So nice to met a PM. Host from the Dakota's. What words to describe it??? PURPLE PASSION ON THE GREENWAY! there I said it. Big Thank You to Perry, Paul, the sponsors for being soo generous, and to all who attended-Martin Fest in GF. Very informative, learning about th...

Can almost feel the Draw! That Special Mod housing you offer must be like a large Magnet! Interesting to here the PM chose the mod. Trio first. My first house is a 30 yr. old Trio /w 12/6 mod. /w cresents /w wing protection /w wood floor inserts in and out, including pre-nest and mud. Was visited by...