Commercially available Purple Martin decoys and recordings of dawn songs can be used to attract these social, colonial birds to newly-installed martin houses.
You can place a handful of pine wood chips in each compartment in the spring when opening the house for martins.Martin houses can also be attached to docks.The houses should be placed in a shallow area that can be checked while standing in the water. If mounting the martin house over water, be sure to place it about 2 feet above the high-water level of the lake. Houses mounted on poles in water (e.g., lakeshores) may have less problems with European Starlings, House Sparrows, and predators like cats, squirrels, and raccoons.The Purple Martins often nest in groups to help protect each other from predators, their colonial personalities help generate southing chitchat. Starling-resistant entrance holes can also help reduce competition from starlings. These are birds with an eye-popping iridescent blue-purple body, sleek black wings with a forked tail that aid in its magnificent maneuverability allowing them to fly at speeds of 45 mph or faster. By keeping compartments closed until Purple Martins return to their breeding habitat, you can help reduce this competition. Purple Martins compete with House Sparrows and European Starlings for nesting sites.Keep the area under the martin house clear of brush and shrubs.Mount the martin house on a pole that can be lowered for cleaning and maintenance.However, overhead utility wires for perching can be nearby (so long as they do not obstruct the access to any side of the martin house). There should be no trees or buildings within 60 feet of the martin pole in any direction.Then if they like what they find, they may stay and found your purple. A purple martin colony is not an assemblage of birds that travels or. The young males flying high overhead in predawn darkness hear the songs and come down to investigate. The complex song of a martin is a mixture of chortles and gurgles that begin. Play the distinctive dawnsong of the adult males near your martine housing at 3 or 4 A.M. Houses painted white seem to be most attractive (do not paint the interior). Playing Purple Martin Dawnsong is a way to get a young purple martin's attention.
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