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OT-The Purple Martins Are Here!!!

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Peabody

02-20-2004 20:45:18




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Spotted three today. They are six days late, the scoundrels (supposed to show up on Valentine's Day). Happy to see and hear them. Spring has arrived in Central Alabama! You snowheads, just hang on! Oh, yeah, the Martins arriving mean that the mosquitos are out for them to feed on, too. Terrible little buggers.




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ken

02-21-2004 19:32:51




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 Re: OT-The Purple Martins Are Here!!! in reply to Peabody, 02-20-2004 20:45:18  
haas i've noticed the same thing about those swallows and they come right back to thier old nest too.we have a building on the farm that we open up for em ,heard years ago an old wives tale that any building they nest in won't be struck by lightning,don't know if it's true or not but it hasn't been hit in at least the 50 years we know about.



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Rudi

02-21-2004 16:27:50




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 Re: OT-The Purple Martins Are Here!!! in reply to Peabody, 02-20-2004 20:45:18  
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I have been trying to attract PM's for years. All the house designs here don't seem to attract them. Anybody got some good drawings on how to build a PM house that WORKS!!????? I want to build a wooden one, not one of the aluminum thingys.

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Peabody

02-21-2004 17:37:37




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 Re: Re: OT-The Purple Martins Are Here!!! in reply to Rudi, 02-21-2004 16:27:50  
See my post below.



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Haas

02-21-2004 06:04:10




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 Re: OT-The Purple Martins Are Here!!! in reply to Peabody, 02-20-2004 20:45:18  
You must be in southern Alabama. I don't have purple martins, but the barn swallows (close relative of the purple martin) don't show up here in Eastern Tennessee until mid April. I've tried martin houses a couple of times but never had any luck. The built in calendar in those barn swallows amazes me. The arrival will vary a few days one way or the other. But check your calendar here the day thay leave and it will be August 15.

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Bill B

02-21-2004 11:37:45




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 Re: Re: OT-The Purple Martins Are Here!!! in reply to Haas, 02-21-2004 06:04:10  
That must be when they take the trip to Capistrano. Remember that song?? or maybe too young.



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Bill B

02-21-2004 05:27:21




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 Re: OT-The Purple Martins Are Here!!! in reply to Peabody, 02-20-2004 20:45:18  
Wow, I should wake up fully before reading this stuff. I thought the heading said Purple Martians are hear, and my first thought was, gee, we should not have sent that probe to mars!



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Kelly C

02-21-2004 06:13:45




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 Re: Re: OT-The Purple Martins Are Here!!! in reply to Bill B, 02-21-2004 05:27:21  
Me too. I should not read these things untill I have had a cup O coffee.



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Merlin

02-21-2004 04:20:27




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 Re: OT-The Purple Martins Are Here!!! in reply to Peabody, 02-20-2004 20:45:18  
I spotted about 50 here on the 25th of Jan. flying high and circling slow, but haven't seen any more. I put up 9 new boxes this year so they have plenty of holes here. Have you put your sighting in the Martin sighter's web page?



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Peabody

02-21-2004 17:24:40




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 Re: Re: OT-The Purple Martins Are Here!!! in reply to Merlin, 02-21-2004 04:20:27  
Nope, don't know about the sight. Just a bunch of local interest among friends who want to be the first to spot them in February. I don't use houses. We grow gourds and paint them. The martins love them. I tried plastic gourds several years ago, but unless you've got a huge colony returning with limited housing available, they just don't seem to like them as much. We kinda have it down to a science of dipping these new-crop gourds in a diluted paint solution around the first of February and hanging them on our poles. The gourds will last a couple of years if they are painted every year. We have more problem with the attaching wires breaking in the breeze than the gourds deteriorating. That reminds me...I can't figure out how to post the picture here, but I will post it on the "Stuck & Troubled" section to the left of one of my gourds last year that a bee colony decided to take up in. I didn't know it until the weight made it crash to the ground one day last October!

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Merlin

02-21-2004 17:56:37




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 Re: Re: Re: OT-The Purple Martins Are Here!!! in reply to Peabody, 02-21-2004 17:24:40  
I tried a gourd one time about 10 years or so ago, but the bluebirds beat the Martins to it I guess, because that is what wound up in it. I didn't paint it and it just lasted one year. I had a 6 hole Martin box with honey bees in it. I transfered them to a hive, but after about 6 months thay all died off. When I moved from my old place, I had 20 hives and they were all healthy but I didn't bring them with me. I guess I'll have to build the bees a Martin box.

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