Holy Cow Bat Man

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Driving from San Antonio to Carlsbad New Mexico. Think Roy Rogers, Dale Evans, Gene Autry, Cisco Kid riding on their loyal horses in the bad lands looking for Bad Men. That was the landscape and terrain we rode through for 7 hours. Add a few oil wells, wind turbines, a cell tower or two and that completes the picture.

IF THE MOVIE THE BIRDS MAKES YOU SHIVER DO NOT READ THE PARAGRAPH BELOW, JUST SAYIN

at dusk last night we saw the most spectacular work of art Mother Nature can produce at Carlsbad cave. We witnessed 450,000 Brazilian free tail bats leave their cave for their night work in the sky. Aprox 45 minutes of bats flying out in flocks from the cave entrance . The show begins right before dusk and by the time we left it was dark. No cameras or cell phones are permitted during the bat flight.

https://www.nps.gov/cave/planyourvisit/images/Nicks-BF.png

Hopefully this link will take you to a photo of the bats in flight after they have left the cave.

Going back this a.m. For a cave tour, then off to Santa Fe

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Photos

Carlbad caverns national park
Amphitheater with the mouth of the bat cave in front. The bats fly as far out as 32 miles a nite. They start coming back to the cave at 0-dark-thirty. During the winter months they migrate to Mexico and Brazil.

Comments

[Liz]

Yikes
I hope the bars were a long way off. I'm not crazy about those little guys.

[Tom Dorsey]

Wow
I'm sure the bats were impressive. Jackie has a case of bird fear. Don't think she could have witnessed that.