Bob Arnold employs plastic gourds to provide housing for his martins in addition to the initial martin box which he put up in 1995.

The first wave of purple martins returned to Bob Arnold’s residence on North Harbour Lane in Hurricane last week. A second wave, composed of the 2023 hatch, are expected to arrive in the next few weeks.

The first purple martin sightings of 2024 in West Virginia are posted on the Purple…