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Old 06-20-2011, 10:46 AM   #617
FishermanTim
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Originally Posted by Notfishinenuf View Post
You are not kidding. The skeeters there are horrible! They bite all day and you can put saddles on some of them. That is why we put up the martin house. Now if we can keep them coming back with some friends next year I will be very happy
If I'm not mistaken, they like to live in colonies, which they sell martin houses with multiple nest boxes/chambers. I live in an area that isn't condusive to martins or swallows. What we do have is a wide variety of traditional backyard birds.
Our backyard bug zapper has to be the sparrows. They can/will eat bugs all day long, and since they will breed repeatedly during the year, they are always on the lookout for bugs to feed their young.
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