How Do You Have Martin Bird Houses That Attract Purple Martins?
Every year like clockwork, flocks of purple martins fly north to set up breeding colonies in purple martin houses all across North America. Purple Martins that breed east of the Rocky Mountains are actually dependent on the man made martin house for their nesting sites. Having the proper environment and suitable houses for purple martins are necessary for attracting these voracious insect eaters and for insuring their return each year to your martin bird houses. Look at the property to see if it has what purple martin birds want and need. Purple Martins like wide open spaces, especially around martin houses, but they also want open fields and grassy areas to hunt over. Martins catch their insect prey on the wing flying high overhead in a swooping pattern. It is a myth that martins consume large amounts of mosquitoes. In fact they rarely hunt in the same areas where mosquitoes tend to abound such as low lying wet areas, and studies of their stomach contents have shown little if any mosq
