Any Birders here?

[bucksnbears]

Applaud the effort with the purple Martin house but...,
Without a perch, I don't see them using it. (Overhead power line)., dead tree branches.ect.

 

[fireone]

Not to worry about them using the house. I have the same floor plan in a Martin house that is in a cattail slough and it gets 4 pair every season.

 

[deleted member]

We've got one. Can't get any martins in it.

 

[Retired-Guy]

Applaud the effort with the purple Martin house but...,
Without a perch, I don't see them using it. (Overhead power line)., dead tree branches.ect.

There appears to be a perch the entire length of the house below each row of holes. I've built similar houses and the martins are happy to use them.

 

[Sum1]

I’ve lived in the Bismarck area my whole life and have never seen a Cardinal until last spring. It had a nest in behind the neighbors house and it is back again this year. Pretty cool!

 

[Fitz]

I got into feeding the Goldfinches (and house finches) the past couple of years, but the price of seed is (like everything) getting out of control. Any place in Bismarck to find less expensive seed besides Lowes/Menards/Runnings?

 

[CatDaddy]

We've got a large hollow in a box elder tree near our driveway. Think women's basketball size. There's been a pair of wood ducks that have nested in it for the past 4-5 years. Just looked out the window tonight and they're back for another year!

So cool.....

 

[Prairie Doggin']

I've got a pair of Coopers Hawks that must be nesting close. Pretty common to see them the last couple years. Like watching them harassing the blackbirds, and vice versa when they snatch on from the nest.

 

[svnmag]

I’ve lived in the Bismarck area my whole life and have never seen a Cardinal until last spring. It had a nest in behind the neighbors house and it is back again this year. Pretty cool!

Look at this fellow!:

 

[CatDaddy]

Look at this fellow!:

What is that? Cardinal color phase?

 

[LBrandt]

Its a draft dodging Cardinal I guess, LB

 

[risingsun]

Sure ain't from St. Louis.

 

[Davey Crockett]

Google yelbino cardinal .

 

[SDMF]

What is that? Cardinal color phase?

Yellow-head black-bird and a Blue Jay got confused during the rut and that was the result.

 

[svnmag]

What is that? Cardinal color phase?

They're mostly found in South America but occasionally one turns up in NA.

 

[CatDaddy]

They're mostly found in South America but occasionally one turns up in NA.

That's pretty awesome!

 

[Sluggo]

Score!

 

[guywhofishes]

My grampa had a never-ending war with those sparrows nesting in his martin houses - birdshot out of a .22 was his go-to

You best research the fix cuz I think the martins can't stand those undesirables nesting in their neighborhood - horribly racist birds that they are

 

[Davey Crockett]

Boy that was quick , It will probably take off for a day or 3 and returns with a colony. Nothing here yet but we are usually a week or two later.

 

[Davey Crockett]

Sluggo are they building nests ? They still haven't shown up here yet but we today we will get up to 70 degrees so won't be long now. They must remember the cold wind in these hills when theres still snow on the ground.