Sweet, the BATS are flying tonight..

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[ARCHIVED THREAD] - Sweet, the BATS are flying tonight..

Posted: 8/3/2009 5:51:18 PM EDT

Been out on the porch watching 5 of them fly around my place, love the sight of bats flying....

Posted: 8/3/2009 5:53:09 PM EDT

[#1]

My neighbor has a bat house on his shed.

Most nights there are close to 10 flying racetrack patterns in our backyards.

It freaks out my wife and the dogs when the swoop low over the grass.

Do not have much of a skeeter problem.

Posted: 8/3/2009 5:54:20 PM EDT

[#2]

I have been wanting to put out a bat house, maybe this fall I will get around to it.

Posted: 8/3/2009 5:54:39 PM EDT

[#3]

Coincidentally, a bat flew into my windshield earlier tonight. i was going 40 MPH, and it hit me head on.

Hope he's Ok.

Posted: 8/3/2009 6:03:03 PM EDT

[#4]

I have seen more bats this year than I have ever seen before. Given, I've spent the last several summers living in an urban environment, but even growing up in the country I'd only ever see two or three at once. Lately I've seen around 8-9 at once most evenings.

Posted: 8/3/2009 6:05:42 PM EDT

[#5]

We love watching our bats. We've got about 6 of 'em that do the nightly rounds over our backyard.

Posted: 8/3/2009 6:06:28 PM EDT

[#6]

Dinner pic coming?

Posted: 8/3/2009 6:09:02 PM EDT

[#7]

5 bats?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bracken_Cave

Come out here and see how many fly over in the evenings

Posted: 8/3/2009 6:10:56 PM EDT

[#8]

My Dad has a few bat houses mounted to the side of his house.

They are full of bats. I checked last time I was there around noon, packed with bats.

Posted: 8/3/2009 6:11:19 PM EDT

[#9]

Quoted:
My neighbor has a bat house on his shed.
Most nights there are close to 10 flying racetrack patterns in our backyards.
It freaks out my wife and the dogs when the swoop low over the grass.
Do not have much of a skeeter problem.

Yup. Love bats flying around at dusk. One of those "summertime" things like the sight of fireflies, or the smell of someone cookin' on the grill on a summer afternoon/evening. Good stuff.

Posted: 8/3/2009 6:34:15 PM EDT

[#10]

We have a fuck-ton of them here. The look really cool through the NODs.

Posted: 8/3/2009 6:37:42 PM EDT

[#11]

I heard they are poisionous...

Posted: 8/3/2009 6:44:51 PM EDT

[#12]

I love bats. Saw one last night.

Posted: 8/3/2009 6:46:21 PM EDT

[#13]

When I was a kid we used to go out around dusk just as the fruit bats were coming out, and we used to take small pebbles and throw them up in the air, to watch the bats "lock onto" them and dive towards them.

Try it - it's fun.

ETA: Just about a dime sized pebble is all you need. Don't use anything bigger.

Posted: 8/3/2009 6:47:49 PM EDT

[#14]

Wear some NVGs at night and look at the sky. You can see a TON of bats flying around.

Posted: 8/3/2009 6:48:58 PM EDT

[#15]

We love seeing the bats in the evening. But this year the number of them is much less.

Posted: 8/3/2009 6:50:52 PM EDT

[#16]

Quoted:
Coincidentally, a bat flew into my windshield earlier tonight. i was going 40 MPH, and it hit me head on.

Hope he's Ok.

You don't, by chance, drive a VW Beetle do you?

/BAH-DUM-TISH!

I've been meaning to put together/put up a bat house or two for a while now. Just keeps getting forgotten until I'm bein' et up by bugs.

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