Basically Austin has the largest urban bat colony in North America. Over 1.5 million bats. They live under a bridge downtown on Towne Lake (really a damned river). We took a boat ride last night to see them. The pictures are from a cheap digital camera. Since the bats come out at night, the pictures are a bit dark...
The first photo is a professional photo of a bat -- to show what they look like...
Picture of Downtown from the lake...
Picture of bats over the trees
Picture of bats over the trees
Picture of bats leaving the bridge
Picture of bats flying past the moon
Another picture of bats flying past the moon
Picture of bats in flight (swarm)
Picture of the swarm over the lake
Picture of the bats under the bridge -- closeup
Picture of the sunset under a bridge
Picture of the sunset, again...
Picture of the downtown construction zone
Picture of downtown and bat bridge...
