Bat's in my Belfry

By Senseless

Once upon a day's end nearly while I wondered worn out dreary, I chanced upon a sound so faint... Oh Nevermind. One of my Minions used the bat entrance in the woodburner which I wasn't using fortunately at the time though the time was late and I may have and could have but I was just tinkering in the dungeon thinking about submarines and bunkers and electric airboats and sorting through boxes of stuff and heard a noise and I know all the house noises this wasn't one of them. I suspected a rat. Then I wondered if the cat got in the ductwork again. Then I thought well if it's a rat the cat isn't doing a very good job and in the second it took to think these things I opened the woodburner door ready to jump back if a rat chased by a cat comes racing out and no cat nor rat but a winged rodent sitting in a pile of grey ashes. Fearing it would be in respiratory distress I grabbed a welding glove and encouraged the now crawling bat to crawl onto my hand and the thing was in shock heart beat beating faster than I can count and who can blame him, I didn't have a hat on an probably looked like it's worse nightmare so I took it out in the dark and sat for about five minutes watching it clutch my fingers and its heart slowed and it took a big breath and flew off over the lake.

Bat's get a bad rap.

I live on the water in Florida and have very few mosquitoes because of their efforts at night and the dragonflies by day.

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March 03, 2007

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Senseless

March 07, 2007

You Have cave next door???????

I wouldn't be able to stay away. Did someone try and sealit up?

Keter

March 07, 2007

In the summertime, Mexican freetail bats nest in the collapsed limestone cave next to my house. They really help keep the mosquitoes in check. Twice, when standing at the corner of my second-story deck after sunset, a bat has misjudged his flightpath and the tip of his wing brushed my forehead.

balubalu

March 04, 2007

Our neighbour once had two of them in her apartment. I'm not sure who was scared most - she or the poor bats.

Anyway I helped her getting them out through a window and I'm fairly sure they found their way back into my batcav-uh- never mind.

Senseless

March 04, 2007

Thanks Maven!

I'm so tired I was hybernating a bit.

DIY Maven

March 03, 2007

This is too cute! We have a lot of bats in our neighborhood. It's so cool to watch them flit around the tops of the pine trees in the back yard at dusk. This summer I'm going to make a bat house to encourage them to stick around. We do live in MN after all--mosquito capital of the world--or at least the midwest. That last pic is brilliant!

BTW--Nice to see a post from you again. It's been awhile!

jasimar

March 03, 2007

So cute! Good for you saving that sweet little bug-eater. When we were kids we had fruit bats around the neighborhood. I don't know if they really ate fruit but it seemed logical at the time so my sister and I would throw pieces of apple and grapes into the night sky and marvel when we'd hear a swoop! and the pieces wouldn't fall back down. Bats are sweet.