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 Sent from my iPhone************************************************* BRISTOL BIRDS NET LIST MENDOTA HAWK MIGRATION DAILY AND SEASON TOTALS CAN BE FOLLOWED DAILY ON THE HAWK MIGRATION ASSOC. SITE http://hawkcount.org/month_summary.php?rsitep6&PHPSESSID²eb5deb1ae5a23e55dcf30171c5ba85 Be sure and visit the Bristol Bird Club website at: http://bristolbirdclub.org This is a regional birding list sponsored by the Bristol Bird Club to facilitate communications between birders and bird clubs of Southwest Virginia and Northeast Tennessee. -------------------------------------------------- You are subscribed to Bristol-Birds. To unsubscribe, send an email to bristol-birds-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the one word 'unsubscribe' in the Subject field. -------------------------------------------------- Wallace Coffey, Moderator wallace@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (423)764-****