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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[brian-z.livejournal.com]

Wow, that is impressive!

Whenever I see these quick little New England bats, I think of the one wild fruit bat I've seen, which was in Managua. HUGE.

[drocera.livejournal.com]

Yes - VERY impressive! Looks like the same kind of bats we have here. You know, sometimes you can throw dog food kibble into the air and they'll swoop down and grab it!!

[cottonmanifesto.livejournal.com]

ha ha! We were trying with dog cookies. :)

[belen1974.livejournal.com]

you were? i thought you were throwing stones/pebbles?

[cottonmanifesto.livejournal.com]

Both!!

[dragonwrites.livejournal.com]

very cool

[ex-wellread.livejournal.com]

I've seen little bats at night in Washington Park in Denver. I wonder if they are the same kind.

[bunrab.livejournal.com]

To some extent, bats are the ultimate LBJs. Probably a brown bat; they're the most widespread. (Remember, I used to live in Austin, which is Bat Central; one can't help but acquire a little bat knowledge if one lives only half a mile from THE Bat Bridge.)
And throwing mealworms (fresh or freeze-dried, depending on one's level of squeamishness, which you probably have very little of) also works...

[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!