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House martins
- Jeff Evans (3rd Jul 2025 - 21:20:41)
For about 30 years after we moved to Liphook in 1976, house martins nested in the eves of our house, they returned the year before last after a 15 year absence but since then have not returned. I still see them occasionally in flight over Liphook and was wondering if anybody had had them nesting this year. I appreciate that they have nest-building difficulties now due..? to the lack of mud to use in construction, and wonder if the man-made artificial nests are the answer to this problem caused by our warmer summers
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Re: House martins
- BallBoy (6th Jul 2025 - 10:16:13)
Dear Jeff,
I have tried - but only one or two - the artificial cups (from RSPB) and have not had any success; I think at least in part because I installed just one or two cups at a time. One might need to install a lot of the cups, to provide bags of choice for the martins ? The RSPB cups are comparatively expensive - so frankly I gave up with them !
However I have had success with what are called 'footholds': 2inch by 1inch timber battens 4 to 6 inches in length, fixed to the wall 4.5inches below the soffit board. I fixed on (10 at one location in UK) using all weather builder glue. I gather that ideally paint the same colour as the wall/soffit. Pretty cheap to make and install.
Such footholds were featured in RSPB Magazine of Summer 2017.
Unfortunately I cant readily locate a diagram or photo.
Good Luck !.
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