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September 21, 2005
Audubon Club
The first meeting of our Homeschool Audubon Club was on Monday. We met at the Friedrich Wilderness Park for a get-to-know-eachother hike. There were 5 other families with kids ranging in ages 2 (Iris) to 10. After the hike we had a snack and made bird feeders. We are going to meet twice a month and pour over the contents of the various Audubon Discovery Trunks. We will also go on one field trip a month. Next month we are going to go birding at Mitchell Lake.
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September 17, 2005
Bats
I haven't been doing much with this blog right now, but I'll go ahead and post some pictures of the bats we saw on a field trip last week.
We went to the Old Tunnel Wildlife Management Area outside of Sisterdale, TX. At about 30 minutes before sundown nearly 3,000,000 Mexican free-tailed bats emerged from an abandoned railroad tunnel over a 20 minute period. They do this every night during their stay in Texas while they are on their migratory path to Mexico. We'll have to make a point to visit Bracken Cave while we are living in San Antonio. It is home to 20 million of the bats, the largest colony of mammals in the entire world.
It was amazing and my photos don't even begin to show how many bats were in the air.
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