Bats
There are several bridges in Tucson that are ideal roosts for bats. One of these is the bridge on Ina Road just west of I-10 in Marana. We’ve been meaning to go there for some time but it took an article in the Arizona Daily Star newspaper to prod us into actually doing it. If you get there near dusk and patiently wait, you will be rewarded with hundreds if not thousands of several species of bats leaving their daytime roost to go foraging for insects in the night. Because of the light issues, still photography is not possible so I took along the video camera, set it to “night shot” and waited. Here’s my grainy video showing the bats emerging from under the bridge. Pretty neat, huh?
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