Tuesday 4 October 2011

carlsbad caverns bats flying

Bat Flight. Beneath the natural entrance is a Bat Cave that is used by nearly 400000 Mexican free-tail bats for about seven months a year. At dusk, these bats come spiraling up out of the natural entrance in breathtaking numbers. Flying to places as... Nearly 400000 Brazilian (more commonly called Mexican) free-tail bats call Carlsbad Cavern home in the summer… and all they want to do each night is eat bugs… several tons of them each night! Carlsbad Caverns...

Two more views inside Carlsbad
Two more views inside Carlsbad

Night Bat Flight, Carlsbad, NM
Night Bat Flight, Carlsbad, NM

Mexican free-tailed bats fly
Mexican free-tailed bats fly

Flying Bats, Carlsbad Caverns
Flying Bats, Carlsbad Caverns

Birds - Bats Flying Around
Birds - Bats Flying Around

Bat Flight Amphitheater
Bat Flight Amphitheater

Dropping down from Albuquerque's Sandia Peak, we pause at Spaceport America in Las Cruces before we get to Carlsbad Caverns and commune with the bats there. After going up on Sandia Peak and down in Carlsbad...
Summer Travel Camp — It Starts Here « windwalkercamp

Carlsbad Caverns New Mexico At sunset, spectators gather at an amphitheater in this national park in southeastern New Mexico to wait for bats to fly. Predictably, a swirling dark cloud of the flying mammals funnels out the...
carlsbad caverns bats flying

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