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...Because bats get way too much bad press on NMP.
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They are absolutely gorgeous! They nest by my house and we get the most wonderful displays of them swooping around eating the bugs, I have always enjoyed sitting out in the evening with them overhead.
Only ever had one inside, thanks to a rather prevalent hunter cat in my childhood, with a mother that’s scared stiff of anything with wings possibly flying near her- that was quite an experience!
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I am so jealous of people who have them nearby.
I have never seen one in the flesh.
I've been to a free-flying bat exhibit at Chester Zoo, where they swoop low over your head.
I'm also a massive fan of Batzilla's YouTube channel, where she rehabs orphaned fruit bats.
Why do you think they have such a bad reputation BlueIris? I have to admit it's one of my phobias, but looking at your pics, they look so cute. Why are we afraid? :scared15:
Because of the Batman...but we all love Robins :biggrin:Quote:
Originally Posted by Carnation
Likely a mysticism thing. Vampires, evil, etc.
One of those things that seems to carry on through the generations like with snakes.
I've been in that bat house. Did they have the tunnel you walk through where the bats zip past your legs when you went?Quote:
Originally Posted by BlueIris
There is a protected wood 15 mins walk from me that has roosting bats. It backs onto a street of houses with a pub on the other side of the wood.
I also have a local park with a small lake 20 mins walk from me that attracts them. If you go at dusk you can watch them zipping over the lake catching moths.
We don't seem to get them near us otherwise. I occasionally see them if walking in the night to the local Tesco as there are nearby farmers fields. Once I was throwing some reduced to clear veg bags I'd just bought in the Tesco (there are rabbits on the industrial estate) in the night, shook the carrier bag out and suddenly a whole swarm of bags came hurtling out of the bush next to me...but sadly I wasn't cured of my fears and didn't turn to crime fighting.
The bats in this thread are so cute! Look at those faces & eyes. Yes, they get a bad rep on here and for no reason. But are we getting a "cute brain eating amoebas" thread too? :biggrin:
I LOVE bats, what a great idea to start the thread! I'm sure I've wittered about bats before on here, well I know I have.....but we have some in the garden every night swopping about, and I have a bat detector (to try and differentiate the different species) AND I go on bat finding walks, and and......
These fruit bats on some of the images are AMAZING.
I have to say I find them cute and adorable even when they don't have those large pleading eyes and baby dog faces.....look at this one.....a soprano pipistrelle is like a flying pompom.
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Aww, that's gorgeous! I shall go picture hunting again when I'm next at the PC.
GREAT thread! I LOVE bats.
We have long eared bats nesting in our roof!
Oh, JoJo, that's wonderful!
You'll be wanting a wasp thread next :whistles:Quote:
Originally Posted by Carys
I've also been on a bat walk with the RSPB. We had detectors for when they flew over us.
That Soprano looks cute to me.
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Long-eared bat covered in pollen.
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This one's called a hoary bat. It has a furry tail and uses it as a blanket - how cute is that?
Thanks for answering my question Terry :)
If it wasn't for you I'd probably be invisible :weep:
Carnation, I'm sorry, I thought you were being rhetorical.
I didn't answer it, because Terry had already answered it. :yesyes:Quote:
Thanks for answering my question Terry :smile:
If it wasn't for you I'd probably be invisible :weep:
That's ok. x
I do have a phobia of bats so I am genuinely interested on how that becomes one. Looking at the cute pictures helps me to see them differently.
I think my phobia comes from my mum telling me they can get caught up in your hair and I have a lot of hair. :ohmy: that and watching too many dracula films when I was obviously too young.
I love animals, so it's a shame I feel this way about bats.
I have never in my whole life heard of one bat being caught in hair, they have absolutely awesome echolocation that can find them a moth whilst both the moth and they are moving at high speed. They swoop and negotiate any complex area with complete confidence and don't ever hit anything - so will never end up in hair or even touch you !
Thanks Carys. x
I think we all have animals that terrify us. I'm irrationally petrified of jellyfish.
I'll take that as being rhetorical BlueIris. :winks:
Keep the cute pics of bats coming, I may grow to love them, that being the purpose of your thread BlueIris :)
Ahhhhhh, so, jellyfish......my adult daughter and I are both scared of jellyfish (it came from her, as I never thought of them until she came up with it). Looking at them in tanks, fine, see pictures, fine, looking over a boat at them, fine. In the sea, swimming, she is really scared of them drifting into her although it doesn't stop her doing a lot of sea swimming abroad where we can see clearly through the water. I don't think this is actually that 'irrational' blue, as there are many jellyfish that can cause bad stings and nasty injuries and we don't know what is below the surface near us when we are swimming. I put this in the category of rational, and a possible real threat but I guess it depends on if you therefore change your life for the threat level or not, or it stops you doing things, then it becomes less rational.
Each night I stand in my garden and watch the batties swoop around me, they KNOW you are there and will never hit you or come near you, as they are masters of aeuronautic movement. They don't WANT to hit anything, that would be rubbish bat behaviour LOL I think you could grow to love bats Carnation, if you understood them more.
I think so too Carys :)
It's the first time I've ever looked at pictures of them.
I never realised how cute they could be. :)
Most people also don’t realise how soft they can be too! I’ve had the privilege of helping feed babies at a local rehabilitation centre. That was the most awesome experience!Quote:
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Oh, wow, Mouse, you lucky thing!
Mouse, you are so right, like velvet that you can hardly feel. I found one in my house, on the curtain once and picked it up to move it - I wore gloves (as know you are meant to) but couldn't resist one tiny stroke. YOu are so lucky to have been involved with them.
I love bats! I grow up on a farm and we used to have a number of nests of them in a few different sheds! My dad used to lift my brother and me up so we could take alook! It was a wonderful thing to get to see!
I think it might be the old r word that makes certain people dislike bats!
Yet I guess we all have the animals we fear- I can't stand frogs. One time I was wearing one-toe shoes and I felt something on my foot...I looked down and saw a frog! I actually passed as a result....hence my fear of fainting was born also :roflmao:
Those bats are all cute too. I always think it's a strange contrast between their furriness and the wings. Although I did think they were made of steel and able to stop bullets...
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That must have been lovely, Mouse. I used to see a guy at the walk-ins who volunteered with the RSPB and once they had to count the owl chicks and he had to hold them. He took a picture for the group, they were very cute!
Louise, I love seeing frogs on our pond. My dad doesn't like them either because they are slimey but I do and have had to pick them up to move them out of the yard sometimes if we are doing some work.
Thats one of my favourite phrases, or used to be a few years ago 'my wings are like a shield of steel'. I shall start reusing it I think !
For those that find bats scary, here's a new twist....
For some that's two nightmares in one!
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FMP, that's NOT ADORABLE! :doh:
I know right? :roflmao:There was a video but apparently it was taken down. My wife has a deathly fear of spiders. I showed her the pic and she ran from the room. That's is one BIG spider!Quote:
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Just to make up for that... here ya go... Now this is cute...
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Flying puppies !!!