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moonshinegnomie

(3,533 posts) Tue Jul 22, 2025, 12:49 AM Tuesday

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 Tuesday OP

How wonderful! What a great sight. Thank you. CaliforniaPeggy Tuesday #1

Wow! Sogo Tuesday #2

the lot changes every few years but not by a lot moonshinegnomie Yesterday #3

CaliforniaPeggy

(154,564 posts)

1. How wonderful! What a great sight. Thank you.

Reply to moonshinegnomie (Original post)

Tue Jul 22, 2025, 01:17 AM

Tuesday

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.

Sogo

(6,482 posts)

2. Wow!

Reply to moonshinegnomie (Original post)

Tue Jul 22, 2025, 12:39 PM

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Is it the same parking lot every year; like it's on their migration path?

moonshinegnomie

(3,533 posts)

3. the lot changes every few years but not by a lot

Reply to Sogo (Reply #2)

Wed Jul 23, 2025, 12:14 PM

Yesterday

they used to roost about 10 miles from where they nest now. several years ago the place they used to roost underwent redevelopment so they moved to a new location for a few years and the past couple of years they moved to a place across teh highway from there. maybe 1/4 mile at most.

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