. Cranberries; : the national cranberry magazine. Cranberries. nason the birds come to the Fed- 1 ral bojT each year is because of U'k'phone and light wires close to thv folonyâthey teach their young 111 fly from the nests to the wires n a short hop. Beginning with a single pole with t* 12 houses, there are now six ol""-, eighteen feet high, so there r3 a total of 72 nests. , re- eniblina' a Chinese pagoda have, green-painted roof with gray ides. Each year the nests are all aken apart, thoroughly cleaned nd repainted, which requires quite bit of time. Feed "In The Air"
. Cranberries; : the national cranberry magazine. Cranberries. nason the birds come to the Fed- 1 ral bojT each year is because of U'k'phone and light wires close to thv folonyâthey teach their young 111 fly from the nests to the wires n a short hop. Beginning with a single pole with t* 12 houses, there are now six ol""-, eighteen feet high, so there r3 a total of 72 nests. , re- eniblina' a Chinese pagoda have, green-painted roof with gray ides. Each year the nests are all aken apart, thoroughly cleaned nd repainted, which requires quite bit of time. Feed "In The Air" The purple martin feeds al- lost entirely "on the ; In tie air it is swift and graceful, ut on the ground awkward and obbles around, not hopping, like robin, for instance. The birds y fast enough to sooon in, on th? ing dragon flies, butterflies whi'^h re such expert dodgers that few rds can get them, millers, and ly kind of flies. They have been )ted flying over bogs when dust- g operations have been in pro- â¢ess. DDT and other cranberry )rays or dusts do not seem to ither them. What the martins do not like id cannot withstand is continued Id and wet. Cold rainstorms have len known to nearly exterminate ie birds from considerable areas. ley huddle in their houses and prve, chilled by the cold while le young stai-ve, also. Instances this have been noted in "Birds Massachusetts and Other New igland States" by Edward Howe rbush. This volume says the martins are lieved to have originally been a d of the tropics, which, because its fecudity and great powers of ht became disseminated widely ough the North Temperate Zone. The same book says the martin s formerly an abundant bird in w England, now "uncommon, e or wanting, or very local in st of southern and local in â thern New ; In early fs it must have been confined stly to open, grassy valleys ng the coast where it nested in ndoned locations of wood- kers. dians Made Martin Dwelling
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