Question: When are the Bats in Austin?
Congress Avenue bridge in downtown Austin is the spring and summer home to some 750,000 bats with up to 1.5 million bats at the peak of the bat-watching season. It's the largest urban bat colony in North America.
Answer: The bats begin arriving in Austin in March and April and remain here until October. However, it is in the late summer, around August, after the females give birth and the young pups are old enough to join their mothers in the nightly forays for food that you'll see the most spectacular bat flights.
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