The Birds & The Bees

 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 ...

My bluebirds are a bunch of Divas. For about 5 months of each year, they pretty much have this whole 23 acres, along with 14 nestboxes to th...

With all the rain we've had this year, the purple martins' nestlings have been feasting on dragonflies galore. Fledging began here o...

It seems that I finished getting my new rack up just in time. This year, to better protect my martins and make my nest checks easier, I'...