Bracken Bat Cave The Largest Aggregation of Mammals On Earth

The Bracken Bat Cave situated in southern Comal County, Texas, outside the city of San Antonio, in the summer home to the largest colony of bats in the world. Every year in summer, approximately twenty million Mexican Free-tailed bats move around from Mexico to Texas to give birth and raise their pups. Whereas these bats take migrate all across the state, the largest congregation takes place at Bracken Cave. From March to October, every night, these miniature creatures fly out of the 100-foot-wide crescent-shaped opening to feed. The mass departure of bats is sluggish at first as they linger at the cave’s lip, circling round and round inside before emerging. But after 4 hours, countless millions of bats stream out of the cave in elegant swirls as they rise into the wide sky and dissipate in the distance. They spread out over a 60-mile radius from the cave at heights of up to 10,000 feet and over the next eight to twelve hours nosh on hundreds of tons of insects, like as moths and agricultural pests.  They’ve dense emergence that it shows up on Doppler radar, as per TexasCoopPower.com. Those who have seen the bats’ nightly emergence have described the sound they generate as that of steadily falling rainstorm.

Bat lovers and tourists, and host of other creatures expectantly wait for their exit. Great Horned Owl and Harris’s Hawks scope out potential dinners from nearby trees, while skunks, raccoons, opossums and rattlesnakes lurk on the ground to strike low-flying bats from the air. The Bracken bat colony eats plenty of insects every night and plays a vital role in pest control, helping farmers control moths, beetles and insects that destroy corn, cotton and other crops. The Bracken site has had an important role in Texas and US history. The cave was mined in the midst of 18the century (1860s) for guano (bat droppings) to manufacture black gunpowder, during the Civil War. The guano was afterward used as a rich fertilizer for croplands across the USA. The bat cave sits upon private land owned by Bat Conservation International that owns 697 acres of undeveloped land around it. Moreover; access to the cave is restricted to keep the habitat of the resident bats, but evening guided tours to the cave are offered to look at the bats emerge from the cave.

Modern Floating House is the Perfect Relaxing Retreat

Architect Dymitr Maclew designed floating House that offers its citizens magnificent clear opinions, a connectedness to their atmosphere, and an easy way to move from one location to another. It is espcially created for H2ORIZON, a France developer that focuses mainly on floating components like this one, the wonderful build is built on top of a secure system that comes prepared with two bed rooms, two washrooms, a lounge, kitchen and fully roofed veranda.

Although the structural components are usually prepared with related facilities, the floor plans can be modified to match any person's choices. Dymitr Malcew wanted to make a house that hardly impacted its environment while also enabling for picturesque opinions that arise naturally but do not creatively restrict the spectacular view of the house's around landscape.

English Man Walking All Day to Create Massive Snow Patterns

English expert Simon Beck never stops to astonish us with his all-encompassing paintings of geometrical styles in snow. Each creatively spectacular piece, which Beck personally makes by strolling through the snow and making behind his track prints, contributes an exclusive element to its natural scenery. Walking myriad kilometers on end, the devoted specialist controls to produce amazingly shaped and intricate designs on the soft, white bed of snow that includes kilometers upon kilometers of land.

Simon Beck skills to not only travel through the slippery surface and icy temperature ranges but to also keep a record of his steps is extremely amazing. The superbly plotted details of the artist's perform supplement the untouched expanse of snow and ice assigned mountains  that include them each season. With the next winter time just around the corner, we're thrilled to see Beck's next sequence of creative snow events.

Majestic Bedford Panorama Bus

If you want to live in England looking for a place to stay that's off the beaten path, it’s a nice idea to try a Bedford Panorama Bus? This amazing bus was lovingly converted into a quaint living space situated near Hay-on-Wye, a small historic market town on the Herefordshire countryside of Wales.The bus has a striking wooden floor, painted pine boarding and a well thought-out dining, kitchen with hand-built units, oak worktops, a gas cooker and a fridge. You see in the picture that at the back is a cosy double bed and a wood-burning stove placed on an old flagstone. An “L” shaped sofa seat folds into a further double bed. Moreover solar panels on the roof power the lights and a socket to charge cell phones, laptops, digital camera battery etc. The bus outside is a decked area on two levels, a fire-pit on which you can cook in the open air and two level platforms. These can act as tent-pitch areas, proficient to accommodate up to a further four guests if your party is larger, or which could be used simply as places to settle down, take in the view or enjoy a picnic. Some metres away lies a purpose built wooden bath house, containing a flush toilet and a deluxe roll-top bath with shower above. A 2nd wood-burner is installed for those chillier nights and the room comes full with tea-light candles for the special romantic bath experience.

Resplendent Quetzal is Famous For Its Colorful Plumage

The resplendent quetzal is considered world's most beautiful bird mostly finds in vibrantly colored live in the mountainous, tropical forests of Central America where they eat fruit, insects, lizards, and other small creatures. The Resplendent Quetzal belongs to trogon family, and can be found from southern Mexico to western Panama, and it is famous for its colorful plumage. Throughout mating season, male quetzals grow twin tail feathers that form an astonishing train up to 3 feet long. Females do not have long trains, but they do share the radiant blue, green, and red coloring of their mates. However Male colors tend to be more vibrant. The Resplendent Quetzal is Guatemala's national bird, and an image of it is on the flag and coat of arms of Guatemala, and also the name of the local currency. The bird is of great relevance to Guatemalan culture, being a character in the widely popular legend of the local hero Tecún Umán, a prince and warrior of the Quiché (K'iche') Maya during the latter stages of the Spanish conquest of the region. Unfortunately, these striking birds are threatened in Guatemala and elsewhere throughout their range.

The colorful Resplendent Quetzals have a green body and red breast. Their green upper tail coverts hide their tails and in breeding males are predominantly marvelous, being longer than the rest of the body. The main wing coverts are also extraordinarily long and give a fringed appearance. The male bird has a helmet-like crest. The bill, which is fairly covered by green filamentous feathers, is yellow in mature males and black in females. The quetzal skin is very thin and effortlessly torn, so it has evolved thick plumage to protect its skin. Like other members of the trogon family, it has large eyes that adapt easily to the dim light of its forest home. The "song" is a treble syllable described as kyow or like "a whimpering pup", often in pairs, which may be repeated monotonously. Resplendent Quetzals have other unmusical calls as well. Resplendent quetzal pairs use their authoritative beaks to hollow hole nests in rotted trees or stumps. Inside, they take turns incubating 2 or 3 eggs though males have such long tails that they sometimes stick outside the nest. Young quetzals can fly approximately three weeks of age, but males do not begin to grow their long tail plumes for three years.

They are from time to time trapped for captivity or killed, but their most important threat is the disappearance of their tropical forest homes. In a few areas, most notably Costa Rica's cloud forests, protected lands preserve habitat for the birds and provide opportunities for ecotourists and eager bird watchers from around the globe. Such admirers continue a long history of adoration for the quetzal. The bird was sacred to the ancient Maya and Aztec peoples and royalty and priests wore its feathers during ceremonies. Resplendent Quetzals habitually live alone when not breeding. They are monogamous territorial breeders, with the territory size being measured in Guatemala as 6 to 10 ha. They are also seasonal breeders, with the breeding season starts March to April in Mexico.