A lot of high - flying bugs and moths overhead last night??

Normally, a bird I'd guess is the Texas or Lesser Nighthawk (Chrdeiles acutipennis texensis) shows up around 8:30pm, at least in my neighborhood, followed usually in no more than five minutes or so, by one or more of what I'm told are the Mexican Free - Tail Bats (Tadarida brasiliensis).

Last night was different.

A group of three(3) of each of these critters were all over the place a few minutes before 8:30 pm, whirling and darting anywhere and everywhere.

Instead of keeping their flying to "very low over the ground," as Roger Tory Peterson tells us in his A Field Guide to Western Birds, 1941 edition, page 95, these particular Nighthawks were not bashful about heading up stairs a ways, I'd say for some good pick'ins....