Lots of baby purple martins have hatched recently. Of 52 compartments, there are babies in half of them. I cleaned out 8 invasive sparrow nests and did not bother 6 nests with new martin hatchlings.
Yakni Achukma means "The Good Land" in Chahta anumpa (Choctaw language). This is the companion environmental blog to my American Indian Health and Diet Project at http://www.aihd.ku.edu/. This blog will follow the wildlife and changing seasons around Baldwin City, Kansas.