Subject: Duwamish T105 purple martin nestboxes
Date: Apr 6 06:08:19 1999
From: Nladenbe at aol.com - Nladenbe at aol.com


Hi Kevin and all:

Kitsap Audubon last year started a project for Purple Martins here on the
Peninusular and had some sucess with it. I know that at one location when
they were putting up the houses they were "buzzed" by a purple martin wanting
a looksee. We used two styles of housing, wood and PVC, and both had martins
fledge from them.

I built some wood ones and was not in the group that was installing them, but
I did hear that some of the locations were too close to the water line at
high tide and they were going to move them up this year. It was very
rewarding to have a picture of baby Purple Martins looking out of a home that
you built for for them.

Nancy
Kingston, WA
nladenbe at aol.com