The Birds & The Bees

When it comes to spotting the apex predators, we have had a wonderful winter. This is why I love it here so much. When your own heartbeat se...

The trees are shaking off the last of their dead leaves in preparation for winter. We usually gather them by the wheelbarrow loads and dump ...

The last pair of purple martins left my site around the last week of July, 2017 this year.  We had a great year, even with the frequent hawk...

I was born on June 4th, 2017.  I was just a wee thing, with 2 brothers and 2 sisters.  My Mom is beautiful and she and Dad feed us often. Bi...

Hello Friends!  The PMCA has been the singular, most important source of information for me over the past 11 years of being a purple martin ...

How was I to know that placing a teeny, tiny little yellow band with the number "A407", on the tiny little leg of a purple martin ...

Ever since my first experience with getting up early to hear the purple martin dawnsong, I have been hooked on it.  I committed to getting u...