{"id":1897,"date":"2011-08-31T03:58:00","date_gmt":"2011-08-31T08:58:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2020-03-27T21:18:35","modified_gmt":"2020-03-28T02:18:35","slug":"bats-on-radar-in-central-texas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/2011\/08\/31\/bats-on-radar-in-central-texas\/","title":{"rendered":"Bats on Radar in Central Texas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"349\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/AkJ6PKa-r20?hl=en&amp;fs=1\" width=\"425\"><\/iframe><br \/>\nI&#8217;ve been watching the iPad app &#8216;<a href=\"http:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/app\/radarscope\/id288419283?mt=8\">Radarscope<\/a>&#8216; quite a bit, hoping for a thunderstorm to come my way. &nbsp;It&#8217;s been dry so long here. &nbsp;But I&#8217;ve been noticing some activity about sunset every day and I finally realized what I was seeing. &nbsp;In several locations here in Central Texas, the Mexican free-tail bat hides out in colonies of millions under bridges and in caves and tunnels. &nbsp;When the mood strikes, at about sunset, they stream out and go foraging for the night.<\/p>\n<p>Taking screenshots and combining them with Keynote, I made a 2 minute slide show of the display, with three different zoom factors.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"Apple-style-span\">The bats are fascinating to watch, on radar, and in person. &nbsp;The Congress Avenue Bridge colony is famous, as well as the McNeil Bridge in Round Rock, but you can see many colonies all over the state.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Update: &nbsp;Mary Ann Melton, my wife, has bats in her blog as well. &nbsp;For a closer look, see here:&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/2011\/08\/texas-bridge-bats.html\">Texas Bridge Bats &#8211; by Mary Ann Melton<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been watching the iPad app &#8216;Radarscope&#8216; quite a bit, hoping for a thunderstorm to come my way. &nbsp;It&#8217;s been dry so long here. &nbsp;But I&#8217;ve been noticing some activity about sunset every day and I finally realized what I was seeing. &nbsp;In several locations here in Central Texas, the Mexican free-tail bat hides out&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/2011\/08\/31\/bats-on-radar-in-central-texas\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Bats on Radar in Central Texas<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[1],"tags":[144,151,120,145,146],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4t90x-uB","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1897"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1897"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1897\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1898,"href":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1897\/revisions\/1898"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1897"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1897"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1897"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}