Whether you're a bird person or not, this is stunning!!! Not to detract from the sheer magic of it, but in practical terms, how MANY trips would a bird have to make with that tiny little quantity of mud/clay it could carry? (and how far from the nest is the source?) If you take the construction of a circular bowl in your stride as instinctive how the world oes the bird come up with the windbreak/entrance design that shields the eggs/chicks from the elements and if it's their first nesting season, at what point in fashioning the bowl do they "know" to start to configure it? Even if you think you could build this…try it without using your hands! And now…stop to consider: Where did the knowledge, capacity to do this, originate? Seeds sprout, cells divide and grow. ...There must be Master Planner. Truly there has to be a Master Carpenter!?

I have to admit I'm always amaze and dazzled by the creation and wonders of the Master!

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