2022 Purple Martin Tracker - now 2023

I always looks at home stores, then local hardware.

I blocked the entrance holes for the first time this year. Trying to keep the sparrows from setting up shop. went out today and opened the house back up. May be early for me as it seems I do not get my first arrival until late in Feb.

Thanks for the reminder. There is a sighting in Lafayette and one in Mandeville on eBird. And several in Tallahasse, and lots in the Florida peninsula. They are on their way.

I put mine on a pole in shallow water that connects two lakes. It was the best way to get away from trees and also keeps predators from the base of the pole. It's worked out really well with lots of birds last year. But it's going to be cold wading out to clean it.

Most, if not all, of the older early arrival birds died in the freeze last year so basically we're waiting on the younger birds that came after that.

Yes, but my house was not even close to full. I may have had three pairs when I normally have almost full capacity.

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In my experience, the snakes you have to worry about aren't coming from water.

I bought a house I haven’t put up yet, I’d better get to it. Last year the house down the canal had so many spilling over they kept trying to get in my basketball goal. They were convinced it was supposed to be a house, it was funny to watch

A lady I know reported one in Tennyson Oaks.