Huge surprise tonight. Sitting at my office desk, I caught a shadow
moving in the corner of my eye. What is this fluttering about the room?
Could it really be a Little Brown Bat? Fortunately, I keep my butterfly
net close to hand, and after a few swipes I caught the culprit. Sure
enough, an LBB.
It seems extraordinary to have this animal in my house when I haven't
seen one in the wild for at least 4 years. Every year at this time I
recall nights when there were always bats around the place, and when I
was reluctant to open the deck umbrella during the day for fear of
disturbing sleeping bats that found the furled umbrella to be a safe refuge.
Sorry I don't have a good photo. When I tried to get a shot free of the
net, the bat clearly took this as an invitation to escape, So I released
it outside and am now trying to figure out how the heck it got into the
house in the first place.
[I'm curious to know if anyone from the NS Museum of Natural History is
subscribed to this list since Andrew Hebda retired.]
Cheers,
Doug Linzey
Arlington, NS
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