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.
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Category Archives: Purple Martin 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…  We did a Purple Martin nest check today and discovered we have 24 eggs in a total of 5 different nests. Make that 23 eggs in 5 different nests. Notice how the one egg has a small puncture in it? I guarantee that was because a House Sparrow raided the nest. I can’t stand those…  Finally! I was beginning to think that our Purple Martins weren’t going to lay any eggs this season, but they have finally delivered. We have a total of 10 nests, but only 2 of them have eggs. Each nest has 6 eggs, which if I recall correctly compared to last year, are larger (I think…  I have some nesting updates. We have 10 Purple Martin nests so far. No eggs, but you could tell they were nests. There were some others that were questionable, but I didn’t count them. The Eastern Bluebirds are still doing well with their 5 eggs. I would expect them to hatch late this week sometime. … As promised I took a few videos this morning that show my Purple Martin colony as well as their attempts to figure out what to do with this new gourd housing unit I bought them. After the Martins did a little bonding a few decided to explore the new gourd housing. They appeared to enjoy…  I’m not sure what is wrong with me lately, but I seem to be on a birding binge. I purchased another BirdCam, a Bluebird House with a built in BirdCam, and I also have on order a new 12 room Gourd Purple Martin House/Rack. In this post I have some pictures of the Bluebird House… As of yesterday we had 9 Purple Martins flying around, but it was almost 8. While the Martins are flying around and chatting, I noticed some type of Hawk land in the tree behind my house. I remembered thinking this is not going to be good. No sooner had I said that when Purple Martin…  It was just a few days ago that I posted we saw 2 Purple Martins, which were the first ones we saw for 2012. Well, today there are now 6 of them, and a male and a female decided to roost in our Purple Martin house for the night! It was after dusk so I… We had our first sighting of Purple Martins today. We saw two, flying directly over the Martin house. They didn’t come down to the house, but it’s good to know they are around and will hopefully choose our house to nest in. In checking our records, these Purple Martins are appearing 1 week earlier than… I wanted to get down my thoughts on being a Purple Martin landlord for 3 years now. As usual, it’s been a great experience, and each year has been more successful than the previous year. The first year the Purple Martin house was located a little closer to the pool and it seemed like we…  Update: As of Saturday at 9:00 am, Lil Buddy is not in his nest. Hopefully the process that I did below helped him to fledge. I guess today is day 2 of my attempt to rescue/rehab this baby Purple Martin. I’m calling him “Lil Buddy.” I’ll share with you the full story and intersperse it…  I’ll try to be brief about this, mainly because I’m exhausted. Our last (and living) Purple Martin baby made an unsuccessful attempt to fledge the nest yesterday. When I got home in the evening the neighborhood kids came to my front door to tell me there was a baby bird in my front yard (all… We had a terrible day in our Purple Martin Colony today. I’ll describe what happened, and if anyone has any ideas as to the cause, please leave a comment or send me an email. In our Colony, we had one nest with 4 babies, and one nest with a near fledgling (with the bird we…  We have 5 Purple Martin babies who have not yet left the nest. Actually, 4 are in one nest, and one appears to be a fledgling. I say “appears” because when I was looking out the backyard window, I saw something that looked like a little mouse near the garden. When I looked a little… |
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