The Birds & The Bees

This year's purple martin season just flew by. I wasn't able to spend as much time with them as I usually did in previous years, but...

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...

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...

John Miller, St. Louis - Forest Park Purple martin landlord & mentor, worked very hard and long to convince the MDC to host a purple mar...

For the last few days, my colony has been under siege by a female Cooper's hawk and a smaller hawk - not sure if it's a Sharpie or a...

After a few days of cold, wet miserable weather - including SNOW, I decided to go outside the last few evenings to check on my purple martin...