Just returned from watching the nightly takeoff of what is apparently the largest urban bat colony in America.
There are 1.5 million bats living under the Congress Avenue Bridge in Austin. One of the facts I wasn't previously aware of (until reading some of the informational signs near the bridge) was that mother bats can eat their own body weight in misquitoes and other insects each night.
—Michael A. Cleverly
Thursday, June 02, 2005 at 20:32
This is exactly why I want a bat house in my backyard! Bats aren't as scary as some people think!
Fair enough, Becca (especially with as many mosquitoes as you people have) but ... EEEEEEW!
It sounds like it would be cool to see the Congress Avenue Bridge bats -- from a safe (and perhaps enclosed) distance -- but if you put some in your backyard, I may not come to see you anymore! ;-)
