Omelet wrote:
> In article >,
> Lou Decruss > wrote:
>
>> On Wed, 03 Sep 2008 13:54:31 -0500, Janet Wilder
>> > wrote:
>>
>>> Lou Decruss wrote:
>>>> On Tue, 02 Sep 2008 21:37:07 -0500, Janet Wilder
>>>> > wrote:
>>>>> I've cleaned plenty of fish, but when I go out in the Gulf or the Laguna
>>>>> Madre the guy who owns the charter boat does it for tips. It's so much
>>>>> more pleasant to watch the gulls feast on the leavings than to stink up
>>>>> my place.
>>>> I've seen them cleaned on the gulf and the feeding frenzy the birds
>>>> make is pretty funny.
>>> There is a restaurant on South Padre Island that has all-you-can-eat
>>> snow crab. A bunch of us go and get a big table on the patio by the
>>> Laguna. We throw the shells into the water and huge catfish churn the
>>> water up in a feeding frenzy. It's awesome to watch.
>> I love watching any wildlife in action. We've figured out how to
>> attract hummingbirds at our cottage and see a steady show all weekend
>> long. I also really like watching the bats feeding at dusk. I've
>> read they eat about 700 mosquitos a night.
>>
>> Lou
>
> They eat their weight in insects every night. :-)
>
> The DOT here has been building their freeway bridges (in appropriate
> areas) to accommodate bat colonies. One of our local ones has a colony
> of several thousand mexican freetails. I reported it to Bat
> Conservation International as they track that sort of thing.
>
> It's totally cool.

There is a bridge in Austin that houses millions of them. Watching them
emerge at dusk is one of the "things to do" in Austin

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Janet Wilder
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