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Post by Mari-in-IN on Jul 24, 2017 20:33:26 GMT
I'm sitting here in the sunroom on my computer and notice what I thought was a BIRD fluttering outside of the windows. I'm thinking it's one of our Phoebes. WRONG - it was decent sized BAT! I've never seen a bat flying around during the day - have any of you?? I saw it a couple of more times so I went outside to see if I could video it. Well, I did - but am hesitant to post the video since ya'll are probably going to have a good laugh over it. I'll see...
~Mari
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Post by feather on Jul 24, 2017 21:02:27 GMT
MacBeth 1605 I have frogs everywhere lately, dogs are not hard to come by. You seem to be on a roll.  |
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Post by Deleted on Jul 24, 2017 21:03:32 GMT
I can only be concerned that the bat might have rabies if he's exhibiting strange behaviors.
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Post by here to stay on Jul 24, 2017 21:05:51 GMT
The only bats I've seen flying in the day has been because I inadvertently disturbed their hiding place.
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Post by Mari-in-IN on Jul 24, 2017 21:25:59 GMT
Do tell ..... does the video show something other than a bat? Why do you think someone may laugh? Because of my reaction when this "flying rat" was "dive-bombing" me! I'm uploading the video at the house at the moment - will post later! ETA - Yeah, since the last heavy rain we had we've got little frogs all over the place as well. Earlier I was going out to check on one of the gourds that has baby wrens in it and was startled by one that I almost stepped on... |
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Post by Mari-in-IN on Jul 24, 2017 22:03:13 GMT
Ok, here ya'll go - for your viewing pleasure... Be forewarned - TURN YOUR VOLUME DOWN...
Maybe this gives you more of an understanding as to why I was freaking out. DID NOT expect that to happen - you know? The third time it "dive-bombed" me - it was just a little too close for comfort! Especially since I know bats can carry rabies and I have pretty long hair and am wearing it up in a couple of fluffy ponytails!
BTW - my little salamander friend is just inside his little hole - hoping he will come further out so I can get some better pics. Of course when DH first spotted him we had no camera and he came out almost all of the way and was snapping at insects with that big 'ole mouth of his - it was SO cute!!
~Mari
ETA - I don't like it when I involuntarily "scream like a little girl" on occasion but hey, that's just me I guess!
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Post by Mari-in-IN on Jul 24, 2017 23:22:54 GMT
Here's a screen shot from the video - I've never seen a bat quite like this and that freaked me out as well.. It's not the best - sorry...  ~Mari |
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Post by kathyinmd on Jul 24, 2017 23:37:59 GMT
wow, you have 6 different types of bats in Indiana....your's seems to be a nice large one....lol...maybe the heavy rains that you have been having has driven him out of his home....hopefully he finds a new one miles away...
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Post by shellymay on Jul 24, 2017 23:54:21 GMT
I think he is beautiful............great filming Yes I have seen them out in early eve on rare occasions, ours are little brown bats, yours does look bigger! LOL.....you scream like a girl!!!!!!  |
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Post by here to stay on Jul 25, 2017 1:18:03 GMT
He looks just like the bats in Dracula movies. Although that remark is not helpful.
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Post by Woodpecker on Jul 25, 2017 11:44:23 GMT
He's an ugly creature! They scare me, even the video scared me! BTW...your scream was so adorable...I'm sure my words would have been, uh, not as clean as yours, and I would have run away way quicker than you did! 😮
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Post by Skandi on Jul 25, 2017 15:55:56 GMT
I love bats, since there's no rabies in the UK I've never had to worry about them, we had a summer roost of pipestral bats (sp) at my grandmothers house in the attic, she hates them so if we were eating outside on a summer evening and they started flying out from under the eves we would have to distract her untill they were all out! She never did find out they were there. All we did was change the newspaper under the roost once a year to keep it clean.
We get plenty of bats here, it's great to watch them in the evening swooping around catching insects.
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Post by dustawaits on Aug 2, 2017 14:06:27 GMT
We have the small brown bats here. I love to watch them, knowing that they are catching mosquitoes.
Mine only come out at dusk.
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Post by bluemingidiot on Aug 3, 2017 1:29:11 GMT
"From the 1960s to 1988 skunks were the most commonly found rabid animals in Indiana. After 1988 bats became the most common rabid animal."
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Post by Mari-in-IN on Aug 3, 2017 2:50:07 GMT
As some of you guys said - you are pretty much familiar with the Little Brown Bat. Same here... That is why I was so freaked out at this one! SO much bigger!
I must try to get some pics/video of the Little Brown Bats that roost during the day way up in the top of our farmer friend's barn. It is so cool to hear them making their "sonar sounds" occasionally and to sometimes see them moving around while they are all squished in between two rafters while he is in there unloading hay... Then it's so cool to see them leaving one after another headed out to the swamp at dusk to eat - what - about half their weight or more in insects?! Very cool creatures...
~Mari
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Post by paquebot on Aug 3, 2017 4:31:21 GMT
The color of that bat is unusual. We have batcow.org here and they have mounted examples of all. I think that this one is a hoary which is the largest found both here in Wisconsin and Indiana. They are also loners during the summer.
Martin
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Post by here to stay on Aug 3, 2017 12:53:27 GMT
It doesn't help that I think of them as flying rats. Because of course they are much more benefical to humans than rats are.
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Post by mogal on May 3, 2020 11:49:32 GMT
We used to go swimming at dusk just to watch the bats fly over the water catching newly emerged insects. We'd crouch in the water until only our heads were exposed. Occasionally, a mosquito would get very close and a bat would zero in on it as the insect tried to bite us. I remember a couple of times feeling the "wind" from the bat's wings or even a very slight touch of the wing on my face or wet hair. They are another creature that is "protected" on our place.
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