Natural gourds or plastic gourds, metal house or wooden house, gourd lines, gourd poles, gourd arms, porches, predator guards, dawn song audio recordings, purple martin decoys. There’s a lot to ...

They’re topped by what looks like old-fashioned TV antennas, ringed with plastic gourd-shaped cavities and elevated off the ground on aluminum poles. These are condos for purple martins, a type of ...

Every year, bird enthusiasts hang groups of plastic gourds for purple martins to nest in Erica Royer Look up during the summer in eastern or southeastern North America, and you may spot a purple ...

It's time to clean up your purple-martin houses or put up new ones. Martin scouts have already been showing up to stake out living quarters, and their families will be here by March. Martin houses are ...

According to the U.S. Department of Agriculture, interest in birding has grown to a $5 billion per year interest. One bird that is quite interesting to have in our yards is the purple martin. It is ...

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I have been shivering a lot this morning. I am tired of cold weather. For some reason (Brrrr) I thought of purple martins. They are a sure harbinger of spring. In front of my office/retail outlet we ...

The other day I was working with my purple martin colony. I have 16 gourd nesting boxes, which house 16 families, and at this time of year the babies are fledging (leaving the nest for the first time) ...

LEXINGTON — Columbia residents Danielle Ream and Bob Donchess are not avid birders, but like a lot of people who escape the Midlands heat by going to Lake Murray, they have a summer ritual that ...