http://martincam.com/blog2/index.php?disp=comments en-US http://backend.userland.com/rss 60 Mon, 04 Jun 2007 19:45:02 +0000 c4199@http://martincam.com/blog2 Hi Jim. Photos i received. Thanks http://martincam.com/blog2/index.php?title=eggs&more=1&c=1&tb=1&pb=1#c4199 Mon, 21 May 2007 15:56:52 +0000 c4196@http://martincam.com/blog2 Hi, I just built and put up a Purple martin house for my mother. i realized that i was likely too late in the season too attract any birds but i wanted to test the house and how it was in the wind. 12 hours later and I have 4 martins flying around and inspeciting the premises. In your experience as florida purple martin landlords, do you think they will attempt to breed now? Another question. what do you do when there is an expected hurricane or tropical storm? many thanks for ideas, james christian safaris in kenya I just built and put up a Purple martin house for my mother. i realized that i was likely too late in the season too attract any birds but i wanted to test the house and how it was in the wind. 12 hours later and I have 4 martins flying around and inspeciting the premises. In your experience as florida purple martin landlords, do you think they will attempt to breed now?
Another question. what do you do when there is an expected hurricane or tropical storm?
many thanks for ideas,
james christian
safaris in kenya]]> http://martincam.com/blog2/index.php?title=eggs&more=1&c=1&tb=1&pb=1#c4196 Mon, 14 May 2007 15:07:16 +0000 c4195@http://martincam.com/blog2 I’ve been wondering what these martins were. I have found nothing about birds one the net… What are they? http://martincam.com/blog2/index.php?title=nest_check_14_birds&more=1&c=1&tb=1&pb=1#c4195 Thu, 08 Mar 2007 23:36:10 +0000 c4185@http://martincam.com/blog2 Do you actually have nests already? http://martincam.com/blog2/index.php?title=2_gourds_updated_nothing_abnormal_during&more=1&c=1&tb=1&pb=1#c4185 Tue, 20 Jun 2006 16:08:58 +0000 c1301@http://martincam.com/blog2 GOTCHA!! Well, sort of.
Well, sort of. ]]> http://martincam.com/blog2/index.php?title=martin_patient_update&more=1&c=1&tb=1&pb=1#c1301 Tue, 09 May 2006 15:47:23 +0000 c637@http://martincam.com/blog2 I would like to know the height for the martin house. I am in Northern Mi. Thanks, Bob Taylor
Thanks, Bob Taylor]]> http://martincam.com/blog2/index.php?title=projected_hatching_18_april&more=1&c=1&tb=1&pb=1#c637 Wed, 08 Jun 2005 17:06:37 +0000 c14@http://martincam.com/blog2 Well, I just saw the pair in there today, but I'm not sure where the other one sleeps. The cam covers pretty-much the whole area, but it seems the moms sit on eggs/chicks while the dads like to hang vertically on the walls, so I suppose he's either vertical somewhere outside the camera's view or else he sleeps in other gourds. Anyway, it's good news these young will have 2 birds feeding them -- they'll need to grow fast because they're basically gonna fledge and then immediately hit the staging grounds and migrate....If they make it!! JMR JMR
]]> http://martincam.com/blog2/index.php?title=a_single_mom_in_gourdcam&more=1&c=1&tb=1&pb=1#c14 Fri, 03 Jun 2005 23:10:56 +0000 c13@http://martincam.com/blog2 What's cool about this is that we now get birds 'till July 4th (but eventually we must clean out the gourds and store them). This is exceptionally good news, I wish these little guys luck, though, they're going to be fledging awfully-late! Hopefully, the third egg will hatch -- it's pretty certain the parents are second year birds (at least, the nominal parents -- female martins are total sluts and wish to breed with older birds if possible on the sly! The males all do whatever they can to be just as slutty as the females, of course...). We also found many bird mites -- especially in gourd-cam, which we killed with Dr. Bronner's soap (see previous posts!) on a qtip. The rain washes it off, but today I found mites even in the housings of the owl-guards, so the lesson for next year is to treat EVERY sheltered surface when there's plenty of time. I can't believe landlords don't ALL use Dr. B.'s, it's absolutely death on the mites, in the camera there were many dead mites -- so many that the lid had essentially become non-toxic by means of killing hundreds and hundreds of them, but STILL there were mites, so we treated again and killed them all. The nest to the left of the former gourd-cam gourd on the upper level (all the way left) was a seething mass of various nasty-looking bugs, but again the lid threads had killed hundreds of mites! (It was still gross!) JMR
We also found many bird mites -- especially in gourd-cam, which we killed with Dr. Bronner's soap (see previous posts!) on a qtip. The rain washes it off, but today I found mites even in the housings of the owl-guards, so the lesson for next year is to treat EVERY sheltered surface when there's plenty of time. I can't believe landlords don't ALL use Dr. B.'s, it's absolutely death on the mites, in the camera there were many dead mites -- so many that the lid had essentially become non-toxic by means of killing hundreds and hundreds of them, but STILL there were mites, so we treated again and killed them all.

The nest to the left of the former gourd-cam gourd on the upper level (all the way left) was a seething mass of various nasty-looking bugs, but again the lid threads had killed hundreds of mites! (It was still gross!)
JMR

]]> http://martincam.com/blog2/index.php?title=holy_pin_feathers_new_babies&more=1&c=1&tb=1&pb=1#c13 Sat, 19 Mar 2005 06:04:39 +0000 c7@http://martincam.com/blog2 Note we use the soap on the threads of the lids to the gourds, so it can't touch the birds. The mites tend to congregate in the threads when they're not hitching a ride on the birds. JMR JMR
]]> http://martincam.com/blog2/index.php?title=3_first_to_build&more=1&c=1&tb=1&pb=1#c7 Tue, 15 Mar 2005 18:10:26 +0000 c6@http://martincam.com/blog2 I love love love the infrared gourd cam! http://martincam.com/blog2/index.php?title=additional_camera&more=1&c=1&tb=1&pb=1#c6 Sat, 07 Feb 2004 15:37:05 +0000 c5@http://martincam.com/blog2 Looking forward to seeing the new baby martin pictures. http://martincam.com/blog2/index.php?title=thanks_to_our_supporters&more=1&c=1&tb=1&pb=1#c5 Sat, 17 May 2003 11:16:50 +0000 c4@http://martincam.com/blog2 a followup - looks like the fourth martin from #9 fledged at 10:35 ET to join his siblings outside. he wriggled out and immediately flew off to the east. http://martincam.com/blog2/index.php?title=gourd_9_fledging_day&more=1&c=1&tb=1&pb=1#c4 Fri, 09 May 2003 18:21:12 +0000 c2@http://martincam.com/blog2 Gourd-cam is now back. Our battery may be a little undersized. For now we have a second similar battery and will see how it goes. http://martincam.com/blog2/index.php?title=gourd_cam_down&more=1&c=1&tb=1&pb=1#c2