This is one of the last visiting martins of the 2019 season. About eight birds returned last evening with five of them bedding down in this T-10 house. The others stayed in pole H ChirpyNest cavity #25. This scenario has played out for the past week but the number of birds returning has fallen from 20 or so earlier in the week and of course more cavities being used.

It’s been a while since I’ve posted to this space and that is because I enjoyed almost all my free time with my martins. Between nest checks at the two sites I manage, the normal duties of work and keeping up the home place my blog posts have been lax.

I will catch up in the coming weeks with results from my Purple Martin year as well as my trip to Johnson’s Worlds Largest Purple Martin colony and the Purple Martin jamboree.