http://www.wqed.org/birdblog/2011/05/28/condos/ A Bird Blog with Kate St. John Fri, 24 May 2013 15:23:57 +0000 hourly 1 http://www.wqed.org/birdblog/2011/05/28/condos/comment-page-1/#comment-13535 Kate St. John Mon, 30 May 2011 00:18:09 +0000 http://www.wqed.org/birdblog/?p=35878#comment-13535 Stephen, Here’s the history of martin houses and information on Native Americans setting up gourds for them: http://purplemartin.org/main/history.html

]]> http://www.wqed.org/birdblog/2011/05/28/condos/comment-page-1/#comment-13534 Stephen Sun, 29 May 2011 16:46:58 +0000 http://www.wqed.org/birdblog/?p=35878#comment-13534 Quite interesting that Native Americans set up gourds for Purple Martins. Presumably to help control the number of flying insects around? Where did you find that information, Kate? I’d be interested in learning more.

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