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PURPLE MARTINS have started arriving......; Neat birds
Topic Started: Feb 21 2013, 09:30 PM (682 Views)
dwarren


I've had a colony of Purple Martins now for about 20 years. My early arrivals (some call them "scouts") have come on Feb. 21 for the last 8-10 years . This year I had 2 males that arrived 0n Feb. 19. I always look forward ^o) to them coming back to my yard each year. For those of you who don't know a lot :news about this wonderful little bird, they only eat flying insects , so in the fall (our fall), they fly all the way to Brazil (4000 mi.), :smackface where it is spring south of the equator. At the end of the Brazilian summer (our winter) they fly back to N. America (another 4000 mi.) :smackface for our spring and summer. They only mate in N. America ;) , and once they mate and raise a brood of babies they will come always come back :banana :banana to YOUR yard year after year to raise another family. Since they only eat flying insects, the mosquito population is greatly reduced with hungry martins around, making summertime outdoors much more enjoyable. To find out more info. :news on starting your own colony, check out :type PMCA.com (purple martin conservation association) :thumb
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Memphis metro


Two houses here. About 15 birds last year. Had to run a hawk off a few times. He would land on the house and go hole to hole. Made the house and poll and everything shake when he landed on it.
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Alpine
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send me a f***ing bird family please.
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dwarren


blue rhino
Feb 21 2013, 09:35 PM
Two houses here. About 15 birds last year. Had to run a hawk off a few times. He would land on the house and go hole to hole. Made the house and poll and everything shake when he landed on it.
Yeah, during the day the martins will usually chase off the hawks, but at night when the birds are in the gourds or house, the owls come around trying to get an easy meal :smackface
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Norby
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Alpine
Feb 21 2013, 09:46 PM
send me a f***ing bird family please.
That really made me lol. Probably look silly sitting in my Freightliner laughing my head off.
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Tim Keith


A man named J L Wade loved the Purple Martin.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Griggsville,_Illinois#The_Purple_Martin_Capital_of_the_Nation
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Spud
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At first when I read this I thought you missed spelled Martians that you were talking about the same Purple Martians that invade my place at night.
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HelterSkelter
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grab your pellet gun, purple martin fricassee time >:}
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68custom


I thought you were talking about purple Doc Martin boots!
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