Here are seven tips on attracting Purple Martins into your yard. The links below are Amazon affiliate links.
Open space
Purple martin love open spaces. Clear your yard from trees and bushes and leave a large grassy area.
Mud
Another way to Attract Purple Martins to your yard is by installing a sprinkler. Purple martins like both mud and water.
Bird bath foundation
Purple martins like water in motion.
No pesticide
Purple martins can be poisoned by eating contaminated flies and mosquitoes.
A martin house
The best way to attract purple martins to your yard or garden is by getting a martin house, painted white or light color to reflect the sunlight. Purple martins love it.
The also love sunshine, so the house should have porches. It should also have separate rooms for privacy and hole for airflow. View this purple martins house.
Keep the house away from trees, wires, poles, or trees. Purple martins know squirrels can climb into their house.
Make them think other purple martins live there
Purple martins like company of their own species. You can attract purple martins to your garden by fooling them into thinking others think this is a good place to stay. Play the purple martins song early in the morning. Put a few fake purple martins on trees and in birdhouses.
Artificial nests
Put artificial nests in a place protected from rain and harsh sunrays, like under a shade or porch eaves.
Put the nests 10 to 20 feet above ground to make the purple martins feel safe.
Smear them with mud to make them look like real nests.
Crushed eggshells
Another way to attract purple martins to your yard is by putting out crushed eggshells for them.
If you like watching birds from your window while drinking coffee or working on your computer, view this nature hangout window bird feeder. Padded grip on seed trays and a transparent roof that protects birds from rain make birds love it. Click to view.
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