Bats or Fireworks?

            Happy forth of July! We were in Austin Texas this year for the 4th of July. We were planning on watching the fireworks this year but due to the dry weather in Texas there were no fireworks.  We decided to walk down to a bridge across the street from our hotel and watch the bats fly out from underneath a bridge instead.  There are around 1.5 million bats that fly out from underneath the bridge every evening around 8:30pm. They are said to consume between 10,000 and 30,000 pounds of insects every night. 

            It was a pretty crazy sight, creepy if you think about it.There were so many of them you could hear the wind with flight.  Defiantly something I will never get to see, hear or smell again.  The crowds of people in the park and boats below faces all watching the sky and waiting, did make the evening feel a bit patriotic.  The bats take about 45 minutes to clear out from underneath the bridge.