Baby Purple Martin Close Up!
I was about 6 inches from this little guy before he flew off to join his dad.
Purple Martins Feeding Juveniles
Purple Martins feeding juveniles at John Paul’s Landing
Purple Martins
This photo taken in July, 2022, the first year for this Purple Martin colony at Beltzville State Park near Lehighton, PA. The gourd rack was erected and is managed by the Lehigh Valley Audubon Society.
Bird at the park.
Birds at the park. We saw Cattle Egrets, a Great Blue Heron, Black-Bellied Whistling Ducks, domestic Muscovies, a Great Egret, a Common Night Hawk, Purple Martins, Black and Turkey Vultures, a Cara Cara, and more!
Lunch at the Eddon Boatworks Martin boxes
Purple Martin nests
Purple Martins in the cold
Mary and Peter and John and Mary guarding their nests
What a Day At the Horicon Marsh! (Part 2)
HUGE variety of birds in the Horicon Marsh! Palm Warblers, TONS of Canada Geese, Tree and Barn Swallows, Blue-gray Gnatcatchers, American White Pelicans, ducks, Killdeers, Purple Martins, TONS of Red-winged Blackbirds, Common Grackles, Forster’s Terns, Herring Gulls, and much more!
Leaser Lake Purple Martin colony
Purple Martin colony in the Lehigh Valley, Eastern PA. 18 Gourds, 53 chicks on June 30, more on the way.
New Perch
Fabricated a new safety perch. We don’t want to lose any little ones. The purple martin seems to really like it as he uses it to sun himself and to survey the area as he eagerly awaits the females arrival. He has been busy bringing additional nesting materials to the pine needles it put in.