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Purple Martins are arriving in NELA
Posted on 2/16/16 at 7:37 pm
Posted on 2/16/16 at 7:37 pm
This afternoon at about 520, I was in my backyard in Oak Ridge and heard the unmistakable call of a purple Martin in flight. Looked up and 5 scouts overhead. I brushed out and Sevin dusted my houses and commenced to raise them. Before I got the first house completely bolted up, three of the scouts were inside. Low tonight 39 degrees..so am glad that I was there to hear and respond. As the scouts soared around, having reached their destination in my back yard after a long flight from Central America, I marveled in the moment and realized that the scouts were probably born in the houses to which they had returned.
So....get your Purple Martin houses cleaned and raised to welcome your flock back!
So....get your Purple Martin houses cleaned and raised to welcome your flock back!
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Posted on 2/16/16 at 7:40 pm to teatiger
How do you keep wasps and those big Mexican hornets from building nests in the Martin houses after the weather gets warm?
Posted on 2/16/16 at 7:55 pm to BFIV
I don't have problems with such in my Martin houses, which are aluminum or plastic gourds. However, in the past have had problems with wasps in wooden bluebird houses, but learned that wasps can be deterred by rubbing ivory bar soap on the inner roof and walls of the house. Wasps won't enter and the bluebirds don't mind.
Posted on 2/16/16 at 8:01 pm to teatiger
Man I've had my house up two weeks and haven't even heard a PM. Wish my colony would get here.
Posted on 2/16/16 at 8:09 pm to tigerinthebueche
I'm 20 miles north of I 20, but there are some large, long-established colonies in my village and the surrounding area, so I guess more scouts may be headed this way, although it is probably a latitudinal function. Are you north or south of I 20?
Posted on 2/16/16 at 10:07 pm to teatiger
Noticed a few scouts this morning down here.
Posted on 2/17/16 at 4:42 am to teatiger
West Baton Rouge parish
Posted on 2/17/16 at 8:32 am to teatiger
Thanks for the heads up. Seems earlier than normal? Gotta get busy...
Posted on 2/17/16 at 8:40 am to teatiger
Saw some in Avoyelles, but none in Rapides yet. Should be any day.
Posted on 2/17/16 at 8:40 am to teatiger
Sweet, I know where I'll send my kid with his BB gun 
Posted on 2/17/16 at 8:42 am to Dusty Bottoms
I think that their arrival is a week to 10 days earlier than last year. Last year, the scouts had some brutally cold days to endure. The forecast through the weekend isn't too bad.
Posted on 2/17/16 at 8:44 am to teatiger
I've seen them as early as feb 1 in Rapides.
Posted on 2/17/16 at 8:45 am to teatiger
My brother doesnt post here but he wanted me to show off his new martin crib
NW Arkansas
NW Arkansas
Posted on 2/17/16 at 8:47 am to Polar Pop
Whoa. Are those holes anti-Starling or something?
Posted on 2/17/16 at 8:48 am to LSUballs
Balls, I will cut off Balls Jr's trampoline privileges if he shows up with a Red Ryder. Anyway, you are going to have him too busy on a ball field for him to be concerned with our feathered friends. You ought to have you a couple of Martin houses on your place....ideal location to develop a colony.
Posted on 2/17/16 at 8:49 am to Polar Pop
quote:
his new martin crib
thats a fine looking house.
Posted on 2/17/16 at 8:49 am to AlxTgr
Alx he said "frick yeah he knows whats up".
Posted on 2/17/16 at 8:51 am to teatiger
You correct, I need to get some of them. May do that today actually. There was 1 up when I bought the place but it came down due to an errant maneuver with my zero turn way back when. Posted on 2/17/16 at 8:51 am to Polar Pop
Can't be true. I'm an idiot.
Posted on 2/17/16 at 8:52 am to AlxTgr
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