Purple martins are really neat birds (especially when your bird biologist friend builds you a house that makes it easy to check in on them).

Check out this super cute tidy nest they built! They pick aspen leaves, using the leaves to regulate moisture for the incubating eggs. Look how perfectly they layered the leaves! Evolution is SO COOL.

@sundogplanets purple martins?! AND eggs?! *eyes @SentinelArk *
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@sundogplanets Gorgeous. It looks like a head of butter lettuce in its perfection.
@sundogplanets I'm very partial to Purple Martins!
@sundogplanets Like a flower. Very impressive.
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I, for one, welcome our new avian overlords.
@sundogplanets "really neat birds" sounds like some Brit talking about their preferences on a dating site.

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I like to think most of us have moved on since the 1970s…

@sundogplanets omg I want to live in that nest! Shove over!

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That's beautiful!

Forgive my ignorance, but do the birds build the nest together or does one bird build it before the couple is formed? I'm wondering whether such an impressive nest might form part of a courtship display.

@sundogplanets I love their baby furniture!