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quickly obvious that not only is Jim Bywaters a careful observer, he is equally adept at writing about his beloved birds.
“Funny thing is,” he wrote, “we erected the housing (referring to attaching the martin house to the pole) around 3 p.m., but did not raise the poles.”
Martins are colonial nesters and can be attracted by multiple housing of either a structure with many compartments or the traditional gourds that Native Americans taught settlers to use to attract these birds.
Martins are not only beautiful and musical, they are also an excellent natural control on flying insects — flies and mosquitoes. Those knowledgeable about martins take the boxes and gourds down after the nesting season to protect them from winter wear and weathering.
Bywaters’ letter continued: “We heard the martins squawking
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