A day late but happy international bat day!

A small early cluster of Gray Bats in a recent cave. Gray Bats are endangered as they have very specific needs and roost together in the tens of thousands or more. This means they are reliant on just a couple of very specific caves, and also susceptible to disease because of the tight clustering in large numbers. Luckily, they have been generally resistant to the fungus that causes White Nose Syndrome.

(Photographed with permission, using low light, during a period when they are not hibernating or nursing young)

#bat #bats #nature #cave #caves #caving #biology #BatAppreciationDay #Baturday

Didn’t get this posted yesterday because server gremlins, but…

Happy International #BatAppreciationDay!

To celebrate, this little Evening Bat (and her gestating cargo) were ready to launch this evening!
🖤🦇🖤 #BatsInBlankets
EDIT: i guess it counts for Happy #Baturday too 🤣

Happy Bat Appreciation day!

Here's the letter I wrote to my 3rd grade class after being bitten by a bat with Rabies.

#BatAppreciationDay

The Internet is telling me it's #BatAppreciationDay, and I'm reading that our native bats here in the UK should be out and about again after their winter hibernation, so I should have opportunities to go out and play with my bat detector again soon.

It had a first brief outing last autumn, and captured the attached pair of pipistrelles having a chat. The white hockey stick shaped marks are echolocation pings. The lower frequency pings peaking at 45 Hz are typical of common pipistrelles, while the higher frequency pings at 55 Hz are in the normal range of soprano pipistrelles. I've read that bats flying in a group are known to adjust their ping frequencies, though, perhaps to avoid interference (might they even be able to complement each other's vision this way?), so it's possible they could be the same species.

Between the white pings are green triplets at a lower frequency that I think are social calls. What the two bats are communicating between themselves and whether it is friendly, exploratory or warning off the competition I do not know, but it's fascinating to see these little details of their behaviour.

#Wildlife #Bats

Accidentally I found there is #BatAppreciationDay... Being here I learnt about many weird "holidays"  

So please, enjoy this realistic #bat #drawing... one of species called "flying fox". I think this name is really cute 🦇  

Some photos I looked at for comparison had ones with more red/orange fur on heads, more fox-like.

#art #MastoArt #CreativeToots #krita #ArtWithOpenSource #animal #animals #wildlife

Seems it's #BatAppreciationDay 

These are always hard to photograph against the ridiculously bright ceiling but I have a few more photos of them. Works better in the summer because bringing a lens with metal casing from 0°C into 30° 100% humidity is not going to work.

#Bat #FlyingFox

In dusk, from in among the walnut tree
and its bearing down upon the damaskina,
although we never see the bat unwrap
like a sticky sweet from the paper…

—WN Herbert, “The Bat”
from OMNESIA (Bloodaxe, 2013)

https://www.poetryinternational.com/en/poets-poems/poems/poem/103-22731_THE-BAT

#Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #bats #BatAppreciationDay