PMC24 Castle Purple Martin House

Product Description

The PMC-24 Castle features individual doors to allow access to each compartment, guard rails to prevent nestling fall-out, roof perch provides additional perching for martins, and safety handle on pole to stop house at desired height.

Community living at its best - A Castle up high! The PMC-24 Castle Safety System is a complete Martin house system. Just as castles are known for their ability to protect the community, every castle should have a winch. Instead of raising and lowering a draw-bridge, raise and lower your castle for maintenance with the winch and cable system. The house stops instantly on post if winch handle slips out of your hand.

The PMC-24 Castle Safety System includes the following:

• 24-Compartment Hex-Shaped House
• Winch and Cable Apparatus
• Winter Door Stops
• dri-nest subfloors
• mounting post
• ground post socket.

Technical Specifications

• Ships in 2 cartons

Additional Information

Purple Martin Facts:

• Purple Martins are one of North America’s best known and most desired birds.
• Purple Martins are the largest North American swallow and the only species of martins on this continent.
• People treasure Purple Martins for their graceful flight, social antics, gurgling song, and insect-eating habits.
• Purple Martins are a unique part of North America’s natural history, managed by humans longer than any other species of songbird.
• In most of North America, Purple Martins depend on human-supplied housing for nesting.
• Purple Martins faithfully return to the backyards of their landlords (the people who put up martin housing) in North America traditionally as warm spring weather returns for their breeding season.
• Purple Martin breeding season is approximately a 70-day cycle while the birds are with us in our backyards. During this time, Purple Martins are busy building their nests, laying their eggs, raising their young and bringing happiness to their devoted landlords.

Housing Standards for Purple Martins

PMC-24 Castle Instructions