Saturday, September 30, 2017

And then the object of my quest. Mexican Free-tailed Bats by the thousands!

On my first night there, I sat with everyone else in the amphitheater at the cave entrance and got to witness their incredible counterclockwise swirling emergence from the deep, up close, but photography is not allowed. So the next night I watched and photographed without a flash from the parking lot area.
They travel out in long wavering lines, heading south and southeast towards the Black and Pecos Rivers.
The Rangers I asked said there were maybe a half million, but no one was counting.

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