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 ...

Wonder why your neighbor is hanging gourds up? Or why there appears to be an undulating donut on the weather radar? The answer to both is the purple martin. The largest swallow in North America, male ...

Meet the Martins. The empty nesters have a little place near Orlando, though they also winter in Brazil. In their Florida home, the couple raised six kids amid the sunny strains of Disney songs.

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 ...

Even before daybreak, you can hear them singing their happy sounding songs from inside their swinging gourds. The purple martin song. It will soon be their season. They return every year from their ...

My friend Avi picked up a package of gourd seeds at the local garden shop this past spring. She just wanted something growing on the trellis in her back yard. She was feeling like Jack and the ...

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 ...

Earl Suggs, owner of Earl’s Gourd Farm and More, demonstrates how to create an opening to turn a gourd into a nesting home for purple martins. The session followed his presentation about this sociable ...

The mass migration of purple martins from their various breeding grounds in North America has concluded. In late summer every year, they aggregate en masse, flying south to Brazil, Argentina, and ...