Bats at Congress St bridge

This is supposed to be the largest colony of this particular type of bat in North America, about 750,000 of them, which grows to 1.5 million after they have babies. They fly out looking for chow (insects) 1/2 hour before sunset from about March until Oct, then head to south for the winter. I have been wanting to see them since we moved here; Jason and Justin went with Rick and me last night.

We decided to ride the commuter train down to Austin, which would have worked out fine except the train kept getting delayed along the route for some reason. Added about 30-45 min total time (down and back) to the ride. We also walked along some of the streets, Jason found a most delilsh BBQ joint to eat at (not hard to do in Texas).

The bats were quite cool looking, so glad we did it. They come out in swarms of 4 different groupings, takes about 30-45 min from beginning to end. As they were flying out, the ammonia smell was so strong.