Ann W. Richards Congress Avenue Bridge
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4.5 (344)Bat emergence typically occurs nightly between 7:00 PM and 8:45 PM during spring and summer.
From spring through autumn, crowds gather at dusk on this Austin bridge to see over a million bats take to the sky.
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Spanning Lady Bird Lake in downtown Austin, the structure shelters approximately 1.5 million Mexican free-tailed bats roosting underneath. Spectators line up along the bridge top or designated viewing spots below as sunset approaches. The emergence is notoriously unpredictable: on any given evening, the colony might trickle out by the dozens or surge by the thousands, creating a lively atmosphere as the crowd waits.
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