Dress up is fun at any age!
But some of our visitors do not come in through the door. We have several of these during the summer---
He's not very good at hiding--a brown bat on a white wall really shows up! He's small--maybe 3-4 inches long.
There is "bat catching gear" at the VC. A net on a very long pole, and leather gloves. Bats are protected species--we catch them and release them outside. Did you know that bats cannot fly when they are on the ground? They need to "drop" from a height to fly. This one was only about knee height on the wall, I just used the gloves to pick him off the wall and hung him on an oak tree outside. These bats eat insects--so I hope he's busy eating mosquitos at night.
3 comments:
I don't know if I could handle the bat even with gloves, but I suppose you have done it so many times that it doesn't bother you.
I LOVE BATS!!!!!
I used to get so annoyed at my cat, she would hurt them... okay, kill them, but for her I guess it was a challange.... It just hurt my heart when I would see her 'prize' - I love bats!!!
And I am making a bat house for my house!!! I don't know where to hang it, or how I will hang it, but I am going to have one or two or heck, lets for for 5!! Bat houses!!!
Your little guy, trying to 'hide' in plain sight was just to cute!!! Thank-You for treating him so well!!!
My sis had mice in her attic - or so she thought!! When someone came to help her out, that is when she found out the noise she heard at night, were bats in the attic!!!! Now, I don't know if i would like that!! But it still makes me laugh! She does not like bats!! So they are gone now!!!
I love bats! I always did a wonderful bat unit in October with my second graders. One year, I took sixth graders up to tag bats, and that was super, too. With all this furor about the "vampire bat invasion" from South America, there's probably going to be a lot of trouble for little guys like this one. I'm amazed at the statistics on how many insects they eat. We would truly be inundated if there were no bats.
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