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100 Congress Avenue
Austin, TX 78701
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+1 512 416 5700
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Neighborhood :
Downtown
The Congress Bridge over Town Lake houses approximately one and a half million bats in mid-summer. In the spring, the pregnant female makes her way north to roosting sites in the Southwestern United States. They each give birth to a baby and at five weeks of age the pups can fly. Hundreds of people line the bridge at dusk to catch a rare glimpse of the bats as they leave the bridge for their nightly feeding. It may take up to 45 minutes for all the bats to exit. They will consume between 10,000 and 30,000 pounds of insects each night.
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Heh. This is a category? Ok. So I'm wondering what happens if someone gives the bats a bad review. Do they get their feelings hurt and head off to...
I like the bats, I have seen them several times, they eat a lot of bugs and they do a good job of it. I had a dream that one day this nation of Bats will...
Nana nana nana nana nana nana nana nana BATMAN! I love bats. Bats are cool. This is free entertainment at its best. What's not to love about a cloud of...
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A Fun Evening
You can take a basket with cheese & wine sit on the grassy knoll and have a romantic sunset dinner, while waiting for the bats to come out. Eve...
Long wait
We waited around for a couple of hours for the bats, but I'm glad we got there early because it got crowded. They didn't emerge until it was p...
Batty
A nice way to segue day into night at the capitol city. Bring a blanket and lay on the grass to really enjoy the spectacle.
Watch out for Excrement
You go to a park sit and wait and then bats fly out by the thousands despensing poo and other waste on the onlookers. The sheer number os bats ...
Even interesting in December
While I understand that most of the bats had migrated by then, we still were able to see a couple bats flying (against the backdrop of a white ...
Looking forward to going again
We went to see the bats fly 2 summers ago. What an amazing experience. We had lived in Texas for a few years and did not even know about them u...
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