Subject: [Tweeters] Purple Martin in TOKELAND!!!!!!!!!
Date: Jul 18 19:44:49 2009
From: Ruth Sullivan - godwit513 at msn.com
Hello Tweeters,
Today I went from Bottle Beach to Tokeland.It was in late July 2007 where
Patrick and I was hanging up 2 Martin Houses up in Tokeland at the Main
Marina.Non of the Martin's bred that year ,it was to late in the season..
In 208 last year one of the houses was occupied,many birder reported
them,and there was the 2 Martin houses going,so I never who took them and
what happen with the Martin,what bred in one of the houses.After I reported
this to the Willapa
Bay Authority,there was willing to hang 2 new houses up for me.I went to
Tokeland twice since than,and saw no sign of anything.Gary Federicks who
lives in Whashougal who I run in to at Bottle Beach,seeing the male and the
female taken turns to feeding the young.We also saw the Male Martin dropping
some of the feces and dropping it in to the water.Hopeful that no one bother
the nest boxes this year.I wish that any birder is going to Tokeland looking
at this houses and would report what there observing on to tweeters,it is
unusual that Martin breeding on the Ocean
Cheers Ruth Sullivan