Forget the nightmares. Houston’s bats are winged friends who like to show off at sunset.
Let’s face it right off the bat: some animals in nature get bad press. Despite being cast as the villains in mythology and fiction, bats are just doing what nature designed them to do, and that makes us all itch less at night.
In particular, we’re talking about the Mexican free-tailed bat, a furry, hand-sized night-flier that roost by the hundreds of thousands in trees, caves, and human-made structures like the Waugh Drive Bridge in Houston and the Congress Avenue Bridge in Austin.
