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moonshinegnomie

(3,528 posts)
Tue Jul 22, 2025, 12:49 AM 23 hrs ago

purple martins

austin texas is famouns for its bat colony but every july/august hundres of thousand of purple martins head to the trees of a parking lot to roost for the evening.


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purple martins (Original Post) moonshinegnomie 23 hrs ago OP
How wonderful! What a great sight. Thank you. CaliforniaPeggy 22 hrs ago #1
Wow! Sogo 11 hrs ago #2

CaliforniaPeggy

(154,545 posts)
1. How wonderful! What a great sight. Thank you.
Tue Jul 22, 2025, 01:17 AM
22 hrs ago

I think it's remarkable that these birds come to this place that is crowded with people, parking lots and god knows what else, to roost for the evening.

It's as though we don't even exist or even matter.

Thank you for sharing.

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