It’s just dusk, and the bats are already out - flapping around on their eccentric flight paths.
Happy hunting, flying mice.
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Bats aren’t flying mice, they are a separate order entirely (Chiroptera vs Rodentia)
In addition to wings, bats have completely different teeth than rodents.
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Brian
Wraiths! Wraiths on wings!
Sir, you argue with Johann Strauss.
Nonsense. It says right here in Winston Smith’s Unabridged Guide to Flying Mice and Other Oddities that Bats are flying mice; Pigeons are flying rats, and Seagulls are flying Garbage Disposals.
Also featured is the “Krunk Beetle”, the “Tree Rat” and “Racoyotes”. It’s right here in print.
:: taps large leather-clad volume ::
I know there are bats here (they’re everywhere, man, everywhere!) but I’ve never gotten to see any. Maybe they’re really shy. I wish they weren’t though. It would be cool to sit out at night and have them swooping around.
I have seen them when camping in Eastern Washington. Well, sort of, with it being so dark and all out there.
Simply awesome.
Wasn’t there a disney movie about a mouse that wanted to be a bat? Had some kind of chant/song: “You’re nothing but a nothing…not a thing at all!” Very traumatic. I like batty bats.
The VunderLair is in Bug Central North Carolina. I welcome my new bat overlords…
Ha. SmithWife is afraid to go out in the yard now. A couple weeks ago, we were out having a fire, and I pointed up and said “Look! A bat!” She didn’t believe me, at first, but she got a load of the crazy flight pattern and was finally convinced when she said “It’s just a bird” and I replied “Yeah? Where are the rest of the birds, then?”
When I posted this thread the other night, she just came to the kitchen door, knocked at me, and waved. I motioned for her to come out but she wouldn’t.
Has she begun wearing a scarf?
…and a necklace of garlic
Think about this very carefully Winston.
When she wouldn’t come outside, was it still daylight?
BATS: [del]Shiiiiire … Baaaaaggiiiiiins …[/del] screech
Twinkle, twinkle, little bat…
How I wonder where you’re at.
Up above the world so high
Like a teacup in the sky.
Somebody once told me that bats can be attracted by swinging a long broom handle around in the air hard enough to make that low-toned whooshing sound. I have not verified this myself, but as long as you don’t mind risking a stranger seeing you whipping a broom handle back and forth like some delusional bug-hating Jedi Knight, it might be worth a try.
I have a big group of bats living in my attic. They are really cute, much like little mice with wings like to OP states. Every year, in July, a number of them find a way into the house so I have to catch them to put them back outside. Bats do not like being caught. They prove it by showing their pointy little teeth. They don’t look much like mice when they do that.
We’ve got rabid bats if anyone’s interested.
Dwyr’s link says they can bite you and you not be aware of it, so be carefull. They are one of the creatures in Arkansas that are considered to be rabies carriers.
Now I return you to harassing Winston about his Vampire attracting spouse…
We toss balled up aluminum foil or socks up into the air while they’re flying about. I’ve had several close encounters of the “bat meets hair” kind when doing this.
“Dusk! With a creepy, tingling sensation, you hear the tingling of leathery wings! BATS! With glowing red eyes and glistening fangs, these unspeakable giant bugs drop onto…”