County’s first martins reported on Culkin
Published 11:26 am Monday, February 6, 2012
The season’s first purple martins were spotted this morning at Pecan Ridge Apartments on Culkin Road.
The sighting of the small birds is a harbinger, birdwatchers say, that spring is on the way.
Eileen Baily, apartment manager, said she saw bird scouts moving around the complex’s martin houses.
“They have a definite soar,” she said. “You know what they are.”
The martins spend the spring and summer in North America as far north as southern Canada laying eggs and raising their young. The birds then migrate to their wintering grounds in South America.