The Birds & The Bees

When it was raining & cold, I was so ready for this season to get started! Now with the heat and humidity, I vacillate between wanting i...

The weather here in Texas County, Missouri has been less than ideal for raising baby purple martins. We have had lots & lots of rain. Lo...

Dear Missouri Landlords, Purple Martin Season 2025 has begun here on Gobbler's Knob! For the first time ever in my 19 years of being a p...

Well, it's more nuanced than that. After finally having some frost, we've reached the perfect weather window in Missouri where I can...

 I have been keeping a log book of all my purple martin arrivals and nest checks since time began. Okay, well really since I became a landlo...

Fellow purple martin landlord extraordinaire, John Miller (St. Louis) found the cute picture below and recently shared it on the PMCA Forum....

For those of you trying to attract purple martins to your site, NOW is the prime time in Missouri! On April 29th, 2021, I reported a male su...

My first purple martin 'scout' of this new season arrived on March 8th, 2021. It was 65 degrees and winds were out of the southwest ...

With the final mass gourd cleanup completed and 2 coats of Pig Snot (my favorite car / motorcycle wax) applied to my predator baffles (whic...

This Guest post was written by my good friend in Corpus Christi, Mr. John Barrow - purple martin landlord expert and all-around good-guy-e...

Per the PMCA, pole-mounted predator guards are an important part of being a conscientious and successful landlord , yet at the beginning ...