Welcome to the Purple Martin Page
What's the benefit of a Purple Martin ?
Many:
Eats many bad insects
Lovely dawn song and voice
Very family oriented swallow
Loves people and prefers Landlords
Allows you to take care & clean their homes !
Threatened Species ?
Travels over 10,000 miles one way to migrate to Brazil !
Much, Much more....
The first visitor of the year: 1st year sub-adult Male
A few weeks later, 4 visitors came:
1 adult Male, 1 adult Female, two sub adult Males
Looks promising for next year !
A nifty little book to read....
