Bats🦇

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Magenta do one of the cheapest detectors that run from 19khz for daubentons up to 45/55 pipestrels .
As its under ten degrees you will not see many out at dusk now . The parents go into torp right now carrying their offspring until late march when food is available again .

Who hates bats?

[raises hand]

It’s not like I wish them ill but they can stay the fuck away from me. Horrible little bastards.

bats are fucking awesome and need all the friends

Bats are awesome, they are everywhere here... They leave their daytime roost at dusk and then spread themselves out all over the peninsula to feed... Huge fruit bats/flying foxes, quite scary when you spook one at night and it bolts out of a tree, the wings make a proper woof sound...

Here's teen me's fave song about bats...

https://youtu.be/yaWn0qcRYFA

We’ve a house in Ireland, bats live in the loft which is a bit of a nuisance but we’ve also given them an outbuilding where you can see them kipping . Lovely little things

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ewxcCYXDzM&ab_channel=CONTENTbible

This you?

v=yDlFWoqU2_shttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yDlFWoqU2_s

I can recommend the echo meter touch 2 which plugs into a phone or tablet and tells you what you are hearing. It’s a great bit of kit

We had daytime bats here out here mid-nov, first time I saw them out like this. The 2 main types around here are Daubenton & Pipistrelle.

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Bought the lad one of these
https://www.presentindicative.com/products/haynes-bat-detector-kit

We went hunting a lot in the summer. It got to the point where we knew where when how many and what type were appearing in the local park

Next summer we’re going after the horseshoes

I don’t think bats in the uk have anything to do with pollination. They’re all insectivorous. Many tropical bats do pollinate plants and also disperse seeds. I did a study years ago into regeneration of cleared rain forests and all the species of tree that recolonised without human intervention depended on bats to disperse the seeds.

Flying foxes are big pollinators, a lot of people net their fruit trees to stop the bats getting at them... They'll generally have a nibble and then move onto the next fruit, bit inconsiderate really... Next time I'm at their roosting spot I'll shoot some video, I could watch them for hours... Kinda looks like this, bit otherworldly...

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Tell me that's not dog shit and it's a Photoshop...

Amazing...

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https://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-news/dog-poo-bag-tree-appeared-16060934

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Saw them at the Moonlight club October 1980 supporting our mates DAF.

That was early days, I didn't see them til '82 but I was only 14 so was doing okay... I loved DAF around that time, was mental for all that early 80s electronic stuff... Until TBP came along and all I was interested in was making a racket with a guitar after that...

Those early Birthday Party gigs when they’d first come over were mental ... and DAF .. ! Wow ... !

...long live Tracy Pew ... !

Bats are cool, don't have any anecdotes.

https://youtu.be/G9A8PFlqM4U

probably a repost
soz

https://www.instagram.com/p/CCaLL6wJJ20/?igshid=1s909badj8xbu

I loved the flying foxes when we visited Melbourne!

I had a Pipistrelle sleeping in my hand once - recovered from a rotten tree that had fallen in a storm.
I found a good place for the bat to continue its hibernation.
They're tiny and beautiful.