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Bats Spotted Under West Lake Houston Parkway Bridge near Kingwoo

Bats Spotted Under West Lake Houston Parkway Bridge near Kingwoo

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~ 1 mo, 16 days ago

Bats Spotted Under West Lake Houston Parkway Bridge near Kingwood

A local resident captured video of bats flying beneath the West Lake Houston Parkway bridge near Atascocita Middle School around 8:30 PM last Thursday, July 30th. Bats feed on large numbers of night-flying insects and can contribute to natural pest control, including helping reduce mosquitoes and other insects active after sunset, especially in these muggy Houston summers. The evening sighting offered residents a closer look at one of the area's most beneficial, natural forms of pest control.

How has your South Texas summer been so far?

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4.7 yrs
~ 1 mo, 16 days ago

Bats Spotted Under West Lake Houston Parkway Bridge near Kingwood

A local resident captured video of bats flying beneath the West Lake Houston Parkway bridge near Atascocita Middle School around 8:30 PM last Thursday, July 30th. Bats feed on large numbers of night-flying insects and can contribute to natural pest control, including helping reduce mosquitoes and other insects active after sunset, especially in these muggy Houston summers. The evening sighting offered residents a closer look at one of the area's most beneficial, natural forms of pest control.

How has your South Texas summer been so far?

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7.2 yrs App
~ 1 mo, 16 days ago

Been there for years. When i lived in Austin, it was an outing to go see all of the bats at sunset; it's still enjoyed by many. Bats are good!

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~ 1 mo, 15 days ago

@LittleTexas :
Yes! The Congress Street bridge has a huge colony of Mexican free tailed bats. I think it's well over a million of them that live under the bridge.

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3.4 yrs
~ 1 mo, 15 days ago

Look out, Austin, Kingwood's following your lead!

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7.1 yrs
~ 1 mo, 15 days ago

@txmusil : We've been in our house, south of Kingwood, for 12 years and either last night or the night before was the first time I've seen bats flying around here. I didn't stay out long. Lol

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15.3 yrs
~ 1 mo, 15 days ago

@KanKan :
We see them swooping around every evening. When we walked our dog they would dive bomb us, which was not a comfortable experience!

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7.2 yrs
~ 1 mo, 15 days ago

@KanKan :
Used to swim in my Godfather's pool with my cousin, next door. We liked swimming at night, and would pop up out of the water, and feel the bats, as we surprised them, and they would swoop up off the water level. They would swoop down to grab water bugs and mosquitoes, and they didn't know we were there, until we came up from under the water. Fun at 12 years old!

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3 yrs
~ 1 mo, 15 days ago

@txmusil :
I see them every day around sunset flying overhead through our neighborhood at KW Lakes. They don't come from the direction of West Lake Houston, though. There must be more than one bridge that they are coming out of. They haven't bothered any of us or our pets yet, and i'm generally happy to see them for mosquito control.

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10.8 yrs App
~ 1 mo, 15 days ago

@txmusil: It sounds like we may have a new tourist attraction. Many people travel to Austin to see the bats fly out from under one of their bridges.

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1.1 yrs
~ 1 mo, 15 days ago

Isn't there a bridge on 1960 near the airport with a big colony?

15.3 yrs
~ 1 mo, 15 days ago

They are also under the Waugh St bridge on the Allen Parkway.

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19.3 yrs
~ 1 mo, 15 days ago

I love this. We need them..love love love watching them as the sun goes down.

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18 yrs
~ 1 mo, 15 days ago

Are they talking about the bridge on WLH heading South toward Kings River??

12.1 yrs
~ 1 mo, 15 days ago

#msg5980054Bats Spotted Under West Lake Houston Parkway Bridge near Kingwood

@txmusil : I saw them too!

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12.4 yrs
~ 1 mo, 15 days ago

They eat a lot of mosquitoes...........tons and tons ...............most fly around 1200 ft...but some fly in swarms up to higher elevations of 9800 ft and where air traffic controllers can pick up large swarms on on radar and have to warn pilots............. like near San Antonio, Austin...........

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