[Bristol-Birds] "Holy cow, Batman!"

  • From: Larry Kirksey <lbklaw@xxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: "bristol-birds@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <bristol-birds@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Wed, 26 Sep 2012 07:19:26 -0500

Live - from the Hill Country on the outskirts of Fredericksburg, TX! 

At sunset yesterday evening, my wife Terry & I witnessed the emergence of a 
colony of bats from the Old Tunnel WMA. A phenomenal event! As the critters 
exist the abandoned rail tunnel, they formed a swirling counter-clockwise 
vortex (similar to a twister) and rose slowly into the southern sky, climbing 
to several thousand feet in search of migrating moths. 

Count? 3 million (yes, million) Mexican free-tailed bats, 1,500 bats of another 
species which I cannot remember and 1 hungry owl.  

A must-see, my birder friends!

Terry Smith
Larry Kirksey
Deep in the Heart of Texas

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