tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29284826.post6759808520161398255..comments2024-01-27T11:40:35.680+00:00Comments on Bean Sprouts: BatsMelanie Rimmerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05871992146568559100noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29284826.post-20168264371025931892008-08-06T12:05:00.000+01:002008-08-06T12:05:00.000+01:00I love bats & I've handled 3 illegally &am...I love bats & I've handled 3 illegally & 1 under supervision. One year we had a bat walk in the village & the bats hid for the entire walk! But our guide had brought a couple of bats with him to show us. <BR/><BR/>In the local church we had pipistrelles & there was a dead greater horseshoe squidged by the big heavy door. It was in the church that I handled my first bat ~ a pipistrelle &, I think, quite young as it fell on my co-cleaner, then lay on the floor whilst we were trying to clean the church. I touched it & told it that I wasn't supposed to pick it up & would it please fly back to the belfry so I could vacuum where it was lying. It listened to me, then flew back to its roost. The 2nd bat lay dead on the pavement & I can't remember what it was, but I picked it up & carried it out of the way.<BR/><BR/>The last bat I had close dealings with was a long-eared bat. There was an old waxed jacket hanging in 1 of my sheds on my Irish smallholding when I moved in & I was studying it to see if it were usable & this gorgeous long-eared fell out. He'd been roosting/hibernating in the jacket, but after being disturbed he didn't stay around, although I did try to put him back up the sleeve (in the end he stayed a while in the pocket).<BR/><BR/>Bats are clever beasts ~ a neighbour had a sensor-controlled light on their garage & the bats would fly into the beam to switch it on & then graze on the insects that gathered. I spent many evenings watching them do that. There were also Daubenton's bats over the rhynes in Somerset that flew just above the water to scoop up the insects there. I want bat boxes here to make sure I have them around me to deal with the hated midgesKillihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13175513884016706612noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29284826.post-38662281405319934912008-08-05T20:54:00.000+01:002008-08-05T20:54:00.000+01:00Really liked your article on bats! Each month on m...Really liked your article on bats! Each month on my site peazyshop we raise money for a different charity http://www.peazyshop.co.uk/peazyshop-fundraising/ <BR/><BR/>this month I have decided to raise money for the bat conservation trust, so will keep you posted on how much we raise. <BR/><BR/>Anyone can help out for free, just visit the link above and then visit one of our sponsors sites. <BR/><BR/>RossAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29284826.post-43905679163320306292008-08-04T14:28:00.000+01:002008-08-04T14:28:00.000+01:00I adore bats! I just wish that they didn't move q...I adore bats! I just wish that they didn't move quite so fast as I would like to spend time identifying them.Carolynhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10285596757505621702noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29284826.post-16536030218579351642008-08-04T12:06:00.000+01:002008-08-04T12:06:00.000+01:00"It is illegal to harm them or disturb them, or mu..."It is illegal to harm them or disturb them, or muck about with their roosting sites."<BR/><BR/>I wish I could find someone who speaks cat to tell Bramble this. He hasn't caught any yet this year, but last year he caught three of the poor little things.<BR/><BR/>We managed to save one and I put it on the shed and kept the cats in until it had gone away. At first I had a lot of trouble latching it onto the shed under the eaves, because I was trying to put it there upside down (from the bat's point of view).<BR/><BR/>They're so tiny and fragile and light, like teeny weeny raggedy umbrellas.<BR/><BR/>BTW, this is Geraldine. Blogger won't recognise my LJ ID, again.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com