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How about some bat pics? The other evening, while [livejournal.com profile] cottonmanifesto and I were walking the dogs, we encountered a bat flying in a figure 8 pattern that involved a large oak tree near the path. Part of its trajectory was so low, and so consistent, that we couldn't resist trying to photograph an animal that otherwise is nearly impossible to catch--at least with our meager equipment.











Date: 2006-09-04 03:24 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] litte2psycho.livejournal.com
wow those are awesome pics!

I have bats in my house and mine look like that

Date: 2006-09-04 03:28 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] chrono2501.livejournal.com
All the same, those are some good shots considering. I like how illuminated the bat looks. Cool Stuff :D

Date: 2006-09-04 03:37 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] candent.livejournal.com
Microbats!

Date: 2006-09-04 03:57 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] kryptyd.livejournal.com
Aww, so cute! I can't belive you managed to photo them! I only ever get fleeting glimses of the little fellas.

Date: 2006-09-04 04:27 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] grace-batmonkey.livejournal.com
!!!

It's like Yule!

And I didn't even get you guys anything :(

Date: 2006-09-04 04:31 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] shadefell.livejournal.com
Oh, that's so cool! Awesome. Thank you!

Date: 2006-09-04 04:54 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] stephanietberry.livejournal.com
HOOOOOOray for the bats! My boy--who's six--is a batfreak and these pics are perfect batfood for his batheart. He has a latex bat that he named "Night", and Night is his son, he tells us, and he takes him out flying and goodness knows whatelse. So if you want to know what it's like to be a batdaddy, you've gotta ask him. He KNOWS.

Date: 2006-09-04 06:13 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] mas69ter.livejournal.com
That's awesome.

I just still wish I had a camera the night a bat was in my living room.

Bat adventures

Date: 2006-09-04 07:56 pm (UTC)
From: (Anonymous)
Yeah, those are cool pictures.

When you get a lot of bats inside the house, though, it becomes more of a task, although it can also be an adventure. We had tennis rackets to dispatch the bats that came into our place in Canada, and one night, as I was shining the flashlight on two bats, one inside the window-screen in our bedroom, and another outside the screen, our cat became a player and took care of the bat on the inside.

Suburban Pantheist

Date: 2006-09-04 06:21 pm (UTC)
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From: [identity profile] lizblackdog.livejournal.com
you photographed a BAT, how cool is that!!!

Date: 2006-09-04 06:50 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] egretplume.livejournal.com
Wonderful photos!

Date: 2006-09-04 09:20 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] fledchen.livejournal.com
yay, bats!

Date: 2006-09-04 11:03 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] urb-banal.livejournal.com
These are beautiful but the first one is the best... It would be a fabulous abstract painting!!!

Date: 2006-09-05 03:28 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] anais2.livejournal.com
Most triumphant!

Date: 2006-09-05 04:13 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] roaming.livejournal.com
Oh, thanks for that. I adore bats, and would have bathouses up on the house if it weren't for everyone telling me I'd be buried in guano. Would I?

Date: 2006-09-05 01:21 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] urbpan.livejournal.com
No, to accomplish that you need to live in a cave or under a bridge in Austin. If you put up a bat house, the main risk is that other animals will use it before the bats find it. Paper wasps especially like them. If you do get bats in it, the guano will be below the bat house, and there won't be so much that it's hard to deal with.

Date: 2006-09-05 07:51 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] bellelvsbeast.livejournal.com
Wow, I love bats! Gorgeous! :)

Date: 2006-09-07 07:02 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] mooncroneweb.livejournal.com
Thank you! The first one is amazing! I love bats, and go out in the twighlight to see them chase insects in the park. I'm amazed you were able to get photos esp up close. When I see them, they flash in and out of the light, disappearing and reappearing like ghosts.

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