Purple martin scouts began showing up in Houston a few weeks ago, prompting my wife, Kathy Adams Clark, and I to get our martin house in order. We pulled it down from its pole, uncapped the apartment ...

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 ...

Choose the Right Housing: Martins need elevated, multi-compartment homes placed in open areas with clear flight paths. Prep for Spring: Set up birdhouses before the Martins arrive—timing varies by ...

Aaron Templemire’s childhood home was surrounded by birds — peacocks, chickens, quail and fantail pigeons. They transformed the family’s one-acre property into a bird sanctuary. For as long as ...

In early February, Andrew and Carol Stamm scan the skies for the first signs that their purple martin colony will return to the nesting structures in their Harahan backyard. And each year like ...

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 ...