THE BATS OF WAUGH DR. HAVE MOVED DEEPER INTO MONTROSE During Hurricane Harvey, Buffalo Bayou rose above the Waugh Dr. bridge, killing off some of the 300,000 Mexican free-tailed bats that lived there. Others have found new residences: “Some of the surviving bats have relocated to nearby buildings. Just take a sniff in any of the multi-floored parking garages lining the streets around the bayou, and you’ll smell their pungent droppings.” Now, Maggie Gordon writes, “In addition to a swarm of winged mammals flying out from beneath the bridge, smaller populations exit from nearby buildings. They join up with the bats from the bridge during their hunt, then return to their new homes for the night, before repeating the same cycle the next day.” [Houston Chronicle]Â Video: Ihadatt
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That’s unfortunate. Some of their (the bats’) new neighbors might be guano-intolerant and take inhumane measures towards them.
Also, there is the very slight (but still real) risk of rabid bats being in closer contact with people.
I hope some way can be found to persuade, coax, or bribe them to return to their former digs.
We have to be happy for our mammal pals adapting post-Harvey.
Welcome to Houston! Come for the mosquitoes and hurricanes, stay for the finely distributed guano!
I never could see the excitement of watching winged rodent fly around, but glad they found new digs.
http://www.merlintuttle.com/2016/08/14/worlds-first-artificial-bat-cave/
Came across this article . Ideal solution for our homeless bat problem. We have potential sites at Montrose/Allen Prkwy, Waugh or Dunlavy . Why not invest a little imagination and build a tourist attraction that even Austin cant top.