1.5 million bats in Texas city left hungrier by drought

[phantom power]

The drought has killed off crops in Texas, and that in turn has killed off those delicious pests the Mexican free-tailed bats consider dinner.

That means they have to leave home earlier than usual each night to find nourishment — giving the locals in this bat-crazy city a precious few more minutes to watch the normally-nocturnal critters fly before the sun goes down.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/43927330/ns/weather/

[marmar]

1. Here's one of them:

[ret5hd]

2. You think he's hungrier than usual?

Looks pretty well fed to me. I suspect hunger is "for the little people."

[tammywammy]

3. I'm really hoping that TS Don really dumps some water on Texas

While we may not get it up here in the DFW area, really any part of the state would do well with a good dump of water on it.