Four days of rain and temps in the 30's-40's have hit purple martins hard in most of Minnesota. Preliminary numbers here in Kandiyohi county suggest we had about 10% mortality by late yesterday, with a second group of birds too weak to fly and soon to succumb. Combined with last year's large chick die-off, it has been a tough 10 months on these little guys.
I'm curious what other martin "landlords" are finding throughout the state(?) Randy Frederickson Willmar ---- Join or Leave mou-net: http://lists.umn.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=mou-net Archives: http://lists.umn.edu/archives/mou-net.html
