The Birds & The Bees

In late March 2011, I was staring out my window watching the falling rain and sleet and the thermometer that was falling even faster. I wa...

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...

I'll be writing another blog post soon about the current status of purple martins here at my site. But I wanted to get this information ...

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 ...

  This year will be my 7th year having to deal with a Great Horned Owl and a Barred Owl here on Gobbler's Knob. The first couple of year...

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

Today was one of those days where it seemed like all the stars aligned and all the forces in the universe came together to make everything j...

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...

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'...