Awwww thank you for sharing, Kate!! When I lived in Africa, there were lots of bats, and while a lot of people were afraid, I always loved the little creatures…. Such skilled flyers, I really enjoyed watching their evening ballet….
I saw a bat once when my Gran unrolled a rug from the garage and we found one living inside it. It’s one of my odder memories. I love the image of heat in this though, a great tonic to the snow currently falling around me.
Beautiful photo and words combo, Kate!
They are such amazing creatures! Often so misunderstood! Judged unfairly!
Shouldn’t we all be able to relate to them?
We get bats in the summer and I love to watch them fly!
HUGS!!! 🙂
PS…Makes me think of a funny story when a friend had one get in her cabin and she was petrified and called me to come over and “get it out of here!”! 😀
We’ve bats in our area too. But I haven’t seen them, but then I don’t go looking for them either. Some folks have Bat Houses to encourage them to stick around and eat the mosquitoes!
“Many bats, and almost all in the United States, thrive on an insect diet. A single bat can eat up to 1,200 mosquito-sized insects every hour, and each bat usually eats 6,000 to 8,000 insects each night. Their appetite for mosquitoes certainly makes a backyard more comfortable.”
I love bats here in New England. And yes, they’re most known for eating mosquitos, so much appreciated in this area. They are smaller in size than the ones in your photo, and swish swish swish during dusk.
we have those smaller ones too, they usually live in caves … those in my photo are much larger fruit bats who live in large super smelly super noisy colonies, and steal all our fruit!
Awwww thank you for sharing, Kate!! When I lived in Africa, there were lots of bats, and while a lot of people were afraid, I always loved the little creatures…. Such skilled flyers, I really enjoyed watching their evening ballet….
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I saw a bat once when my Gran unrolled a rug from the garage and we found one living inside it. It’s one of my odder memories. I love the image of heat in this though, a great tonic to the snow currently falling around me.
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So love bats, so love the photo too
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Beautiful photo and words combo, Kate!
They are such amazing creatures! Often so misunderstood! Judged unfairly!
Shouldn’t we all be able to relate to them?
We get bats in the summer and I love to watch them fly!
HUGS!!! 🙂
PS…Makes me think of a funny story when a friend had one get in her cabin and she was petrified and called me to come over and “get it out of here!”! 😀
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Lovely image and perfect matching words.
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We’ve bats in our area too. But I haven’t seen them, but then I don’t go looking for them either. Some folks have Bat Houses to encourage them to stick around and eat the mosquitoes!
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oh no here they are huge and smelly and consume masses of fruit, not heard of them eating mosquitoes!
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“Many bats, and almost all in the United States, thrive on an insect diet. A single bat can eat up to 1,200 mosquito-sized insects every hour, and each bat usually eats 6,000 to 8,000 insects each night. Their appetite for mosquitoes certainly makes a backyard more comfortable.”
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wow I think we need to export some of those!
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I love bats here in New England. And yes, they’re most known for eating mosquitos, so much appreciated in this area. They are smaller in size than the ones in your photo, and swish swish swish during dusk.
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we have those smaller ones too, they usually live in caves … those in my photo are much larger fruit bats who live in large super smelly super noisy colonies, and steal all our fruit!
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🦇🦇🦇Love your bat poem and image. Bats are groovy creatures… 😊
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