Last Sunday I took out the two cyclone output filter cartridges and hauled them outside where I could blast them with an air hose. I had run the hose out from the shop and had to leave the door about half open to give me enough hose length to work with. I dragged out the Trend positive pressure respirator and proceeded to clean the Wynn filter cartridges.
After completing the cleaning I took the filter back inside and back to there housing in order to reinstall them. I got to the back of the shop and heard a noise that sounded like someone banging against the window. My windows are 2' X 6' each and there are 3 along the North and South walls at 7' off the floor. Well what do you know, a Purple Martin had gotten in shop while the door was open and was very sure that he/she could get out by flying through the window. I slowly moved along the shop wall toward the Martin which fluttered itself down the last window and into the corner of the sill. From there I was able to pick him up and take him up to the Veranda for LOML to see. After about 15 seconds of looking him over, I just opened my hand and he was off and way.
Never in a hundred years would I have thought that I would actually catch and hold a Purple Martin.