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...

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

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...