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Old 07-17-2006, 01:06 AM   #1
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I have bats

Nobody believed me, but I got a shot of one of the bastards last night.

He's a big one (7 - 8 inch wingspan). I measured the approximate distance and came up with 40 feet.

He will dive bomb you!

The closeup could show two wing beats, or one wingspread. Scary either way!
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Old 07-17-2006, 02:47 AM   #2
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yikes!
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Old 07-17-2006, 05:54 AM   #3
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Just eating your mosquitos.......until they can find your jugular.
Very hard to photograph after dark... good job, NBN.
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Old 07-17-2006, 08:22 AM   #4
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Cool trick -- when they fly in your direction, toss a pebble in the air. They'll often confuse it for an insect, lock in on it, catch it with a swoop and release.
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Old 07-17-2006, 09:24 AM   #5
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I was fishing out on a lake after sunset and kept feeling these 'strikes' on the line -- it turned out to be bats swooping down and confusing the line for bugs.
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Old 07-17-2006, 11:43 AM   #6
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Our old neighborhood was infested with bats, they were as common at night as birds in the day - and 4-5 times a year we'd have one in the house. I fucking hate bats in the house. Imagine sitting in your living room, quietly reading a magazine, glancing up, and seeing a bat dive bombing you. Bastards...
Cool shots though.
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Old 07-17-2006, 12:07 PM   #7
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We've got them under our roof, but I kinda like the little fellas.
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Old 07-17-2006, 12:32 PM   #8
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Are they protected where you are? In Britain, if you have bats in your attic, you're not allowed to disturb them, and fined if you do.
(If you have bats in your belfry, that's a different problem altogether !)
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Old 07-17-2006, 05:15 PM   #9
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My family and our contractor are building bat boxes for our homes to encourage them to move into our yards.
We have many in our neighborhoods.
Please do not shoot any more, they are needed.
If they are in your home I can get you instructions on how to get rid of them harmlessly.
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Old 07-17-2006, 07:16 PM   #10
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In theory, getting a bat out of your house is simple; just open a door or window and they'll find their way out. In practice though, or my experience anyway, any bat that is smart enough to find their way out won't fly in by mistake in the first place - so you're either dealing with a total dumbass, or a criminal mastermind that is staging a coup. Either way, you end up with all your doors and windows wide open, sweating your ass off under a blanket with a bat circling overhead while your husband runs around with an oven mitt and a badminton racquet screaming like a woman.

My neighbor discovered that her husband has a bat phobia when one "attacked" them during dinner one night. He screamed, leapt up from the table, ran from the house, GOT IN THE CAR, and drove away. She had to call another neighbor in for help....
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Old 07-17-2006, 09:57 PM   #11
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...any bat that is smart enough to find their way out won't fly in by mistake in the first place - so you're either dealing with a total dumbass, or a criminal mastermind that is staging a coup.
Or a rabid one. Austin has tons of bats (our hockey team is even called the IceBats), and we get rabid-bat outbreaks every so often.
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Old 07-17-2006, 09:59 PM   #12
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It is amazingly rare for a rabid bat to bite a human, they don't last long. They have very fast metabolisms.
Basically the human has to be messing with the bat.
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Old 07-18-2006, 08:41 AM   #13
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Vampire bats will die if they don't feed every other day. If they can find a buddy that will share half of what he ate, then they both must feed the next day, or die.

If a bat flies into your house, I'd say your window screens are too course.
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Old 07-18-2006, 10:56 AM   #14
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while your husband runs around with an oven mitt and a badminton racquet screaming like a woman.
You wouldn't happen to have pictures of this, would you?
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Old 07-18-2006, 06:30 PM   #15
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No.... but that would have been fantastic blackmail material... bummer...
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