Purple Martin Set Up 2009

by Gene
(Kansas)

2009 Purple Martin Set Up

This is/was the Wild-Bird-Watching.com Purple Martin Set Up for 2009.

Two S&K Best Houses converted to 6 large rooms each. We added 8 of the new S&K Bo-11 Plus Gourds to the 4 Combo Plus Gourds that we had last year.

This year we also added a winch and a new rack system that held both houses and all 12 gourds. Life was much more easy doing our weekly nest checks.

Again this year we had a single pair that successfully raised and fledged 6 babies.

We had a break out of mites when the Purple Martin nestlings were about two weeks old. I did a complete nest change and added 1/4 teaspoon of Sevin to the nest.

Now it's mid July and we are getting a lot of visitors that I hope are imprinting this location so that they nest here next season.

Here's to 2010!