I went to Round Rock to play some Pokémon Go (4 stops, all lit, café with AC, sublime). There’s a Mexican free-tailed bat colony that roosts through the Summer under an Interstate bridge, so I went off to see them for a while. The huge swarms of mosquito eating friends fanning out are especially beautiful in person. This one is a nursery colony with young bats hanging out in the bridge, and the moms flying out each night to collect enough food for themselves and their brood.
You can get quite close, I was hit with bat pee a number of times, though it’s still worth it for me. Nightmare scenario for photography, but I did what I could with the fast moving, jittery, erratic tiny creatures hanging out in lower light.
catching the sunset
