{"id":2311,"date":"2023-01-19T18:50:53","date_gmt":"2023-01-19T23:50:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/torch.cci.fsu.edu\/~lis5313\/?p=2311"},"modified":"2023-11-07T11:40:28","modified_gmt":"2023-11-07T16:40:28","slug":"its-fricken-bats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/torch.cci.fsu.edu\/~lis5313\/index.php\/2023\/01\/19\/its-fricken-bats\/","title":{"rendered":"“It’s Fricken’ Bats”"},"content":{"rendered":"
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“crowds on the Congress Avenue bridge to see the bats<\/a>” by buhny<\/a> is licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 2.0<\/a>.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n
“Australian Bat South Australia 1X.wav<\/a>” by digifishmusic<\/a> is licensed under CC BY 4.0<\/a>.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

If you were to visit Austin, you\u2019d most likely find yourself crossing the South Congress Bridge to reach one destination or another. Between the months of March and September, you would be met with hundreds of people flocking to this same bridge, Lady Bird Lake below, and the surrounding Ann and Roy Hike-and-Bike Trail. Without much knowledge of the city, you might question whether or not the live music capital of the world was about to put on a grand show, but in actuality, hundreds of people are about to spend their night waiting for the world\u2019s largest urban bat colony to fly out and begin their nightly feast of bloodsucking mosquitoes. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Comprised of primarily female bats and their newborn pups, the colony communicates to one another using chirping noises similar to the ones heard in the selected Australian Bat South Australia<\/a> audio. Digifishmusic\u2019s <\/a>recording enhances buhny’s<\/a> photo by helping put into perspective a portion of the ambience one would experience when gathering around the guano infested bridge during a warm Texas sunset.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Although I no longer live in Austin, the two years my husband and I spent in the city were life giving. Lady Bird Lake, renamed after Lady Bird Johnson, is not only the home to the South Congress bridge, but it memorializes our time not only growing academically, but also growing as a family. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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