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Category Archives: Purple Martin Well I’ve got some good news and some bad news. I guess I’ll start with the bad and get it out of the way. In nest 12, the oldest of the Purple Martin babies at day 15 now, one of the babies died. From the looks of things, I’m going to guess the baby had…  I have an update on the Purple Martin nesting activity for this year. Also, some of the pictures at the bottom of this post may gross you out, so you’ve been forewarned. Nest 16 has 2 babies and 3 unhatched eggs Nest 15 still has 1 unhatched egg (I need to watch this nest and…  I still have lots of unhatched Purple Martin eggs, but also have 2 nests that have babies. Thus far, the babies in nest 12 look quite healthy.  Finally! The first eggs from one of the nests have hatched. I just took a quick peek as I didn’t want to upset the parents too much. From what I did see, 3 of the 5 eggs had hatched. I would expect that there should be continued hatchings almost daily. Here’s a male Purple Martin…  Well today is roughly day 18 since I first saw the eggs in the Purple Martin houses, and none have hatched. From what I read, it’s normally around 16 days when the eggs hatch, but we have had a couple of cold days, so perhaps that’s the reason for the delay. On the bright side…  I finally can provide an update on my Purple Martins and their nest building. I have 9 nests so far (2 in the gourd houses, and 7 in the regular housing). The oldest eggs are about 7 days old now. I’ll give the nest and egg total in a moment, but I wanted to share…  Today was a little chilly in the morning so the Martins were just trying to stay warm. Here’s a male just basking in the sun  The Purple Martin nest building has begun in earnest now. If you’ve been reading my blog for a while, you know that last year I added new Gourd housing, and this year I added a new Trendsetter house. The Purple Martins really seem to enjoy the new Trendsetter house and I would venture to say…  I’ve got lots of news to share (especially since it’s been so long since I have posted), but only 1 picture. Let me start with what all is occurring in the backyard. The Monarch Butterflies have arrived, but unfortunately I’ve only seen 1-2. The Ruby Throated Hummingbirds just arrived today (March 19). There is one… Today I saw the first Purple Martins of 2013. They were a total of 3 birds, and although they would fly overhead, they appeared to be drawn to the Martin houses at a neighbors a few houses down. Hopefully within a few days they will check out my new Martin house, and well as the…  I knew after the Purple Martins left last year that I would be upgrading my Purple Martin housing this year. I did have a Water’s Edge 14 room house (they don’t make this size anymore), but with a pole that I had to manually lift from its housing to check on the nests. That’s just… A couple of days ago I wrote a post about a very small baby Purple Martin. I think nature took over, as there were no eggs, no Purple Martin babies, and no Purple Martins in any of my houses two days ago. I think they have begun their migration. Now whether one of the parents…  We’ve had a very successful Purple Martin season. We didn’t have one loss of life this year for any of the babies, which is a first. All of the babies have fledged and it seems some of the adults and fledglings have even migrated. However, there is one Purple Martin who laid 4 eggs very…  We did a brief nest check today on our 20 Purple Martin Babies. Everyone is looking really good. Three eggs didn’t hatch, but all babies that did hatch look just fine.  We have our first Purple Martin babies of 2012. Two different nests have babies in them. One of the nests is in the new gourd house. In that nest there are 4 babies, and two eggs that have not hatched. I checked the two eggs, and there is no damage to them, so hopefully they… |
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