My old aluminum purple martin house has supported generations of purple martin families — but not in the last few years. I’m not sure why the old house lost its appeal to the birds. The house was ...

GRAND HAVEN — The last pair of purple martins nesting in the gourds at Grand Haven State Park may have a tough time getting their young ready in time for the flight south to the Amazon rainforest.

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For hundreds of springs, people have had a relationship with purple martins. It began with early American Indians who hung hollowed-out gourds from tree limbs around their villages in order to attract ...

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 ...

The Martin gourd variety makes an ideal nesting spot for Purple Martins, providing them just the right amount of space to build their nests. Though this particular variety is named for its feathered ...

Centuries before European settlement, the Caddo Indians established farming villages in what would become East Texas, where they no doubt welcomed the annual return of purple martins. Imagine a Caddo ...

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) ...

Friends Gloria Gay and Jeanie Dierwechter share a common bond: They love gourds. Both are members of the Pennsylvania Gourd Society, represent the organization every year at the Pennsylvania Farm Show ...

Dickie Martin was raised at the end of Ghost Creek Road in Laurens. Some 70 years later, he and his wife Linda still live there with their children around them. The original homeplace stands across ...