During this morning’s light drizzle, I spent a considerable amount of time
running cherry planks seasoned for decades through a plane. The procedure was
noisy enough for me to wear ear phones. At 9:36 A.M., moments after the plane
came coasting to a halt, I heard a “Chemp, Chornk!”
Stepped out the back door of the shop to see 2 Purple Martins perched atop the
plastic gourds. After becoming momentarily teary eyed at their return, I
reached for my camera and snapped a picture. They took off and disappeared soon
afterward. I began to think after a while that they may have decided that our
yard had become too noisy and had moved on. Then I heard them again in about an
hour. This time one began peering into a compartment. Got its picture too. It
would probably be a more correct protocol to file 2 separate ebird incidental
reports, but I’m far from being alone in slightly bending ebird protocol. Two
images with this link -
https://ebird.org/checklist/S106955467 ;<https://ebird.org/checklist/S106955467>
Frank Lyne
frank@xxxxxxxxxxx - near Dot in Logan County, KY
