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Title: Purple Martins
Post by: Steve Wood on March 01 2011, 03:16:34 PM

Took down the house and cleaned out the sparrow nests a week after the scouts arrrived.   Nothing like procrastinatio n.  I hope I did not piss them off as I really enjoy the four months of happy chatter they bring along with them.

Hope the rest show up soon before the sparrows start imposing squatter rights again.  Maybe I should inform the sparrows as to the availability of the Wisconsin capitol building?

Title: Purple Martins
Post by: SuperSix on March 01 2011, 07:20:40 PM

The only birds I have around here on a regular basis is Muscovy ducks. I don't care for them at all. One has a huge nest with 13 eggs in it right outside my office window.

Nasty buggers

Title: Re: Purple Martins
Post by: DCEPTCN on March 01 2011, 08:45:34 PM

I must admit my ignorance as far as the names of birds go. But, those barnswallows (?) that make nests out of mud and spit and shit all over the porch are not my friends.

Title: Purple Martins
Post by: Steve Wood on March 01 2011, 09:02:31 PM

martins are a type of swallow.  One year, I spent sometime trying to convince those mud nest building swallows to not do it under my porch or in my shop...damn determined creatures.

Title: Purple Martins
Post by: DCEPTCN on March 01 2011, 09:25:01 PM

Quote from: "Steve Wood @ Tue Mar 01, 2011 7:02 pm"

martins are a type of swallow.

Title: Purple Martins
Post by: Steve Wood on March 01 2011, 09:44:41 PM

yep...the year I had my wars was the year it rained all summer and this place was a jungle rather than the usual desert.

Title: Purple Martins
Post by: gbsean on March 01 2011, 09:55:08 PM

too bad they don't like mosquitoes... a popular myth

Title: Re: Purple Martins
Post by: DCEPTCN on March 01 2011, 09:58:44 PM

Ugh! I'll take ANYTHING over mosquitoes. How do people live out east?!

Title: Purple Martins
Post by: SuperSix on March 02 2011, 07:41:12 AM

It got cool enough last night to open the windows last night - woke up with 2 mosquito bites and one buzzing my ears. Gah!

Now I get the examine my screens for rips.  :mad:

Title: Re: Purple Martins
Post by: stevemon on March 02 2011, 07:52:43 AM

Not much of a mosquito problem here with several Martin houses in the neighborhood but if there was a problem I'd put up one or two of these
http://www.backyardbird.com/Bat-Houses_c_29.html

Title: Re: Purple Martins
Post by: SuperSix on March 02 2011, 08:32:50 AM

Quote from: "stevemon @ Wed Mar 02, 2011 7:52 am"

Not much of a mosquito problem here with several Martin houses in the neighborhood but if there was a problem I'd put up one or two of these
http://www.backyardbird.com/Bat-Houses_c_29.html

I need to get that done too. It would be a good project for the future step-son and I.

Title: Re: Purple Martins
Post by: Pyro6 on March 02 2011, 09:47:05 AM

Last coupla years we've been invaded by stink bugs. It's amazing the places they flatten themnselves into and don't squish. It's nothing to change a cabin air filter and have 2-3 in the pleats. Damn things.

Title: Purple Martins
Post by: Steve Wood on March 02 2011, 10:13:26 AM

A week after it was 7 degs here, it was 80 and I have killed three wasps in the house....

Title: Purple Martins
Post by: ULYCYC on March 02 2011, 10:22:35 AM

Yep crazy weather. Snow just melted a few days ago and ant hills are popping up between the cracked cement. I blame Al Gore

Title: Purple Martins
Post by: SuperSix on March 02 2011, 10:43:51 AM

I have issues with wasps. They love the eaves of my house, and my TR.

Bastards.

Title: Purple Martins
Post by: Steve Wood on March 02 2011, 11:00:57 AM

I have a feeling there is a nest in the window ac unit in my bedroom....hav e not seen any signs outside of them going into it...but, bout the only way they can get in, I think

Title: Re: Purple Martins
Post by: DCEPTCN on March 02 2011, 08:03:36 PM

Little bastards cost me a couple of hundered dollars when I had to call a repairman because I couldn't get the furnace to light due to a nest in the chimney. Actually, *I* cost me by not thinking of that.

Title: Purple Martins
Post by: Old Buzzard on March 12 2011, 10:42:22 AM

I had the mud/nest problems on my breezeway.
Got a rubber snake.. no more bird $hit on there.

Title: Wasn't..
Post by: Old Buzzard on March 15 2011, 09:40:07 AM

Quote from: "DCEPTCN @ Tue Mar 01, 2011 9:25 pm"

Quote from: "Steve Wood @ Tue Mar 01, 2011 7:02 pm"

martins are a type of swallow.

Title: Purple Martins
Post by: daveismissing on March 15 2011, 09:53:11 AM

"Hey Linda wanna see my Purple Martin" ?

Title: Purple Martins
Post by: Steve Wood on March 15 2011, 10:37:14 AM

Chuck will be interested to know that the buzzards returned six days after the martins

Title: They never..
Post by: Old Buzzard on March 15 2011, 11:09:42 AM

Quote from: "Steve Wood @ Tue Mar 15, 2011 9:37 am"

Chuck will be interested to know that the buzzards returned six days after the martins

leave here. Too many "gourmet meals" on the roads, to leave.
LOTS of deer, possums, skunks, armadillos.... All gave it all to keep the scavengers alive! :D

Title: Purple Martins
Post by: Charlief1 on March 15 2011, 12:24:11 PM

Quote from: "daveismissing @ Tue 15 Mar, 2011 07:53"

"Hey Linda wanna see my Purple Martin" ?

I don't think she's got a mircoscope Dave. :rofl;  :smt023

Title: Re: Purple Martins
Post by: daveismissing on March 15 2011, 12:41:32 PM

Ouch... Been takin' to my wife?
 :smt103

Title: Re: Purple Martins
Post by: SuperSix on March 15 2011, 01:08:47 PM

Quote from: "daveismissing @ Tue Mar 15, 2011 11:41 am"

Ouch... Been takin' to my wife?
 :smt103

No - she's been talking to US

Title: Purple Martins
Post by: daveismissing on March 15 2011, 04:38:53 PM

Never let spelling get in the way of a good putdown.

Title: Re: Purple Martins
Post by: tb3 on March 17 2011, 01:27:01 AM

dad likes purple martins.   he mounted a tall house for them in his back yard.  
there was a good size hawk that would swoop in right over the top of the trees at super fast speed and grab one of them up right off the top of that bird house to devour, every couple days.
dad decided to sit on the back porch with the shot gun and wait.  
dad: 1
hawk: 0