About 10:00 this morning for several minutes I watched a beautify male Purple Martin glide over one of the lakes at The Honors golf course in Ooltewah. Apparently he had already checked out the refurbished gourds prepared for their arrival and was catching insects over the lake. This date falls about in the middle of the earliest (Feb. 22) and the latest (March 11) date for me to see the first one at the golf course. David Stone The Honors Course Ooltewah, Tn. Hamilton Co.