Images of New Mexico - IX

Sunset Bat Flight, Carlsbad Caverns National Park. A most amazing spectacle. If you follow the Bat Flight link, you'll read that the bat population has declined dramatically in recent years. One can only wonder what it was like to see millions, rather than a couple hundred thousand, bats emerge from the cave mouth at sunset.


Previously, in the archives:
Shiprock (I)
Very Large Array near Soccorro, NM (II)
Flightline, Cannon AFB (III)
Taos Church (San Francisco de Asis) (IV)
US 84 Roadside (V)
Valley of Fires (VI)
Brazos Cliffs (VII)
Main Street Portales 0328 hrs. (VIII)