Outdoor & Adventure · wildlife viewing

Congress Avenue Bridge Bats

$ · Austin, Texas

The finest free show in Texas. Come dusk from spring through fall, roughly 1.5 million Mexican free-tailed bats — North America's largest urban colony — pour out from under the Congress Bridge in a rippling black ribbon and fan out over Lady Bird Lake to hunt. Stake out a spot on the bridge, the law

Try: The mass emergence at dusk in late July, when the newborn pups take to the sky
📍 Ann W. Richards Congress Avenue Bridge, S Congress Ave, Austin, TX 78704 🕐 Nightly emergence around sunset, roughly mid-March through early October 🔗 www.austintexas.org/things-to-do/outdoors/bat-watching
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