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Bats!!!

Joel I

Joel I

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I was thinking how we were starting to monopolise another thread so thought starting a new thread for bat appreciation would be better. I have always loved bats both the microchiroptera and megachiroptera and spend as much time as I can around them.
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Corv a Little Red Flying Fox - Pteropus scapulatus I was looking after last year.
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A colony of Little Bentwing Bats - Miniopterus australis in a tunnel near my house.
 
Oh I love bats! We get them flying across our backyard and settling in the trees behind our house. Combined with the crows it's like living in an Edgar Allen Poe story crossed with Scooby Doo :)
 
Bats are cool. It's just the way it is. No discussion.
About two years ago I woke up in a rush, already late for a doctor's appointment, when I spotted this little fellow clamping on to the side of my bed. One of its arms/wings was broken. Maybe it had an unfortunate encounter with the cat, maybe it simply partied too hard, I don't know. But it seemed ok apart from that. I didn't know how to take care of it myself, so I rang up the bird shelter thing, because they are a protected species, and brought him in (I named him Vladimir by that point.) I don't know if he made it or not. I kinda wished I could've nursed it back to health myself, but that wouldn't have worked. Anyway, it was nice to see it so close. Those small ones really are like freaky hamsters with dinosaur wings.
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Oh, to complete the story, sometime last year, I had to post some letter and on my late night bike ride to the mailbox I encountered some bats flying out of the bushes, and one of them flew right parallel to me for a while, and I could swear it had it's head turned and was looking at me. So that was Vladimir, hanging out with his buddies again, stopping by for a moment to let me know he made it. (Probably not, but it's nice to imagine.)
 
Bats are very intelligent. I know a carer who released a orphan Black Flying Fox when he was old enough to look after himself. He stays near eating from nearby trees & on occasions lets himself into the house through the back door then heads to the chair his human mother uses.
 
Has anyone here ever seen the bats that live under the Congress Avenue bridge in Austin, TX (the largest urban bat colony in North America)? I would highly recommend seeing them come out in the evening to bat fans. There's also a bat statue nearby.

Bat sculpture photos

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I love bats :)

They're so cute. When I used to live away from the city, farther east, we'd get flocks of bats flying overhead in the evening.
 
I love bats, and I love seeing the first bats of the year come out. Unfortunately their numbers here have been dwindling, so I don't really see any big flocks anymore.
 
Just another thing I miss about not living in Virginia. Used to love occasionally seeing them as a kid. :cool:
 
I have a few Bat Carer friends & live near some caves and a tunnel with colonies inside so I have several ways to get my VERY needed 'bat fix'. I seem to require interactions with bats every week or so. I have a Grey-Headed Flying Fox tattoo on by back but that is another story.
 
I am currently holidaying at the Australian Bat Clinic and learning as much as I can about bats, their care & rehab. I am having the time of my life.
 
When I was practising being a cave man I shared my cave with a family of Pipistrelle bats, lovely folk, loved bats ever since.
 
Euhm, Bat People, there's a bat flying around my house and it can 't seem to find the exit (tricky windows here) It's extremely agile (it's so different from the way a bird flies; you can sort of see it calculating it's trajectory along the way, where birds tend to just panic and bump into everything.) but there are some cats around who wouldn't mind a little friend to play with...
I just checked and it seems to have found the way out (the cat went outside too, which is a sign). Or maybe it's hanging around somewhere. Maybe it was good ol' Vladimir flying by to say hello. Anyway, crisis averted.
 
gonzerd said:
Euhm, Bat People, there's a bat flying around my house and it can 't seem to find the exit (tricky windows here) It's extremely agile (it's so different from the way a bird flies; you can sort of see it calculating it's trajectory along the way, where birds tend to just panic and bump into everything.) but there are some cats around who wouldn't mind a little friend to play with...
I just checked and it seems to have found the way out (the cat went outside too, which is a sign). Or maybe it's hanging around somewhere. Maybe it was good ol' Vladimir flying by to say hello. Anyway, crisis averted.
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I would love a bat flying a pound my house, I often have them outside but never inside. Microbats are very smart and eat insects including mosquitoes so it is always beneficial to have them round
 
I love bats. I got to gently pet one once. There were a couple of Eastern Red Bats (US) sleeping out the day on one of our trees a few years ago, not far off the ground. They are exceptionally soft. Other than a light touch I left them alone.

That weekend, I bought a bat house and attached it about 15 feet up one of our trees. I don't know if bats ever used it but it's still there. That was many years ago.

I used to like watching bats flying around catching bugs in the early evening hours when I was a kid - 50 years ago I guess.
 
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