You know those comedy films where the struggling parents can't handle their young children and this is illustrated in a scene where one parent steps on a toy left out in the middle of the hallway. And then while doing the hopping dance holding their injured foot steps on something with wheels and goes for a sixer.
Well it wasn't quite that, but I did fall over in my haste to get to my camera and bring to you all the photo of this bat.
After the adrenalin had died down it did occur to me that bats were pretty widespread, and that it was pretty much a given that all of you have actually seen a bat, or even possibly many bats before.
From now on I'm only running at night for drop bears.
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We have a lot of bats here in summer, but I never managed to take a picture of one.
I think maybe you should try the Red-eye Reduction technique on this photo... :-)
Lol Mark, that was the first thing I thought of when I saw the photo. And I remembered yours and thought, "nah!"
vrtlarica ana, the banana tree is growing right outside my loungeroom window, I couldn't have missed it if I tried :)
Wow, I've never had a bat in my backyard... fully appreciative audience here. :) And cheeky thing, get him off the nana's!
Im all up for a few wildlife shots Ali, eeky bats included...I would have been scaredy of it...
Well, I think it was worth the effort. Even if we all have bats in our own belfries it is nice of you to show us yours. There was a colony of flying foxes in the botanic gardens in Melbourne...right in the city. My son was living in one of the colleges at Melb Uni ... all gothic architecture. At dusk they would fly around...It looked like something out of a horror movie...but beautiful and incongruous in a large city.
Ok - never seen a bat 'cept in a zoo, so appreciate you falling over! Are they noisy, like possums?
Ms Lottie the possum living here is very quiet, and so are the bats! I just hear the bats land on the banana plants, it's the rustle of the foliage and the beating of their wings that I can hear, but I wouldn't call it noisy.
How fabulous Hazel, I image it would have been quite a sight to behold.
Suzanne you big girl :p
Kat they don't seem to touch the unripe bananas as they are after the flowers. I have been informed that when they begin to ripen though I'd better get in there quickly!
The latest issue of How to Find Great Plants is here and your peanuts post is featured. Thanks so much for participating, I hope you will again next month. Here’s the issue:
http://www.appalachianfeet.com/2011/02/01/how-to-find-great-plants-issue-3/
I love love love bats! Your photo was well worth the (humorous) calamity. :)
I think it's a pretty good photo actually and well worth the comedy to get it. I haven't actually taken any photos of ours - but they do seem to swoop pretty low when you're out there don't they. Good luck with the bananas!
Hello Ali, I love your comparison here and though I do see bats here never like in your photo! Bats are in trouble here in the US and it is scary to think of what life might be without them. Buzz... Buzz!
Great shot! I have seen bats, but flitting past very quickly. You did well to capture that one.
Let me know how you get on with using 'glaur'!
Linda there is no glaur here right now, it rained for such a long time and now it is just hot hot hot... and sticky. Perhaps the air could be glaur!
Hi Carol, thank you for dropping by :), I didn't know bats were in trouble in the US, but I can imagine they are running out of habitat in most places.
Wendy I took the photo from my lounge room window, the bananas are so enthusiastic that they are almost inside!
And Eliza thank you so much for including my peanut post, I feel very chuffed :). Such a big task you have set yourself, I can really see it taking off.
Fabulous photo. Not only a bat but, if I'm not mistaken, a flowering banana plant in the background!
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