🐦 Purple Martin detected!
Confidence: 82%
Time: Oct 15, 2026, 5:04 PM EDT
🔊 Listen: https://app.birdweather.com/detections/11764333305
📷 Photo: Bill Carrell (iNaturalist)
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@birdnet.bsky.social🐦 Purple Martin detected!
Confidence: 82%
Time: Oct 15, 2026, 5:04 PM EDT
🔊 Listen: https://app.birdweather.com/detections/11764333305
📷 Photo: Bill Carrell (iNaturalist)
@andrewkaizer.comA #PurpleMartin in flight and perched. I have often seen PUMA around nest boxes folks put up to support them, but this was the first time in the middle of a preserve with no such boxes. They darted to and fro, catching some insects to eat.
July 2026 in McHenry County, Ill (Boone Creek) #birds
@dailybirdfyi.bsky.socialPurple Martin · № 019
Martins gather in enormous roosts before migrating south, with some traditional sites in the southeastern U.S. hosting hundreds of thousands of birds swirling into a single stand of trees at dusk.
@andrewkaizer.comA tree with a few #PurpleMartin was unexpected! Since it was raining I initially thought they were damp Tree Swallows, but upon closer review the PUMA aspects come across nicely (and the male obscured by the branch doesn't hurt).
June 2026 in Elgin, IL #birds