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The crevices protect bats from predators and provide female bats with an incubator-like setting to raise their young. The sun heats the pavement on top of the bridge and then filters down into the gaps, warming the pups. At sundown, swarms of mature bats take flight from the bridge almost simultaneously as they begin an overnight journey in search of food.
This peaceful coexistence between bats and the citizens of Austin is the realization of a long-held dream for Merlin Tuttle. Bring a blanket, some chairs and sit back and relax. Visitors and residents alike line up nightly on the Congress Avenue Bridge to witness the bats fly out from beneath the bridge, forming a surreal dark cloud as they ascend into the night sky.
Arrive early for a front row spot the sidewalk gets crowded and be sure to face the east, as the bats will fly out in that direction. If you'd rather make it a more active experience, you can watch the bats emerge from the trail. Try to find a spot east of the Congress Avenue Bridge with a clear view of the sky, but be sure to not block the trail from runners, walkers and cyclists passing by. You can also rent a kayak, stand up paddleboard board, canoe or water bike and join the other aquatic adventurers that float around under the bridge around sunset.
Bat cruises on Lady Bird Lake. Credit Geoff Duncan. You can get an incredible view of the bats from the water with Lone Star Riverboat or Capital Cruises , which put you right in the middle of the action on Lady Bird Lake. Or, ply the waters yourself with Live Love Paddle or Austin Kayak Tours , which both offer nighttime bat-watching kayak excursions. Austin's resident bats are Mexican free-tailed bats, which migrate each spring from central Mexico to various roosts all over the southwestern U.
The University responded by sealing cracks in the overhanging seating decks, and it contracted exterminators to spray the stands with cyanide gas. That spring, female bats established a nursery beneath the bridge.
The colony grew each year by the hundreds of thousands, and by , its population had peaked at , adults, making it the largest urban bat colony in the world. Local newspapers published sensationalist articles about rabid bats. Alarmed, Austinites petitioned the city to eradicate the roost.
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