Forgot to mention that on Thursday evening I also checked out North America's largest urban bat population under the South Congress St. bridge in Austin, with over 1.5 million bats. They all fly out from under the bridge at sunset, but I wasn't quite sure precisely what time it would occur. I went for a quick jog and got there 20 minutes before sunset, then wandered up and down the bridge for the next hour, not sure where to look either. Finally, as darkness really set in and just before I was about to give up (I had envisioned a massive flock of bats rising up), I noticed some folks looking up from below. Indeed, I couldn't see the bats from above without light from behind, but there were lots and lots and lots of them emerging from the bridge, though always staying low such that from above you wouldn't have noticed them at all if you weren't looking intently.
In the end, it was a pretty unique sight.
In the end, it was a pretty unique sight.
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