Urban flying mammals

[urbpan]

I thought the carp were difficult to photograph! Small, fast moving, nocturnal--I'm surprised these pictures turned out as good as they did (which isn't very good). Hey, vampyrusgirl, can you identify it from these?

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[vampyrusgirl.livejournal.com]

Looks like a big brown, most likely. Stokes has a great field guide to bats, BTW. You'd like it, I think.

[urbpan.livejournal.com]

I have "America's Neighborhood Bats." I'll have to look into the stokes guide.

[cottonmanifesto.livejournal.com]

Can you ID this one?

[djinnthespazz.livejournal.com]

Awww. Did it die? Is it laying on the ground?

Awwww...

[cottonmanifesto.livejournal.com]

No, it's clinging to a wall!

Here's some context for ya.

[djinnthespazz.livejournal.com]

Okay, that is one confused bat.
Poor thing.

In some ways I guess it's a good thing that a large part of the population goes about absolutely oblivious to the natural world around them... or that little guy would be a goner...

[cottonmanifesto.livejournal.com]

Lol! The theory is that he got scared/hustled out of his original roost by something and just picked the next nearest place. He was dead asleep when we were looking at him, and gone by the next day.

NOBODY had any idea that bat was there (including other people I work with who'd passed by that spot before me)!

[vampyrusgirl.livejournal.com]

Again, I'd vote big brown. Cute, ain't they? :)

[cottonmanifesto.livejournal.com]

They really are!