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[Rconnorsphoto@xxxxxxx]

There is one good reason that bats do not usually fly in broad daylight- 
adult Coopers Hawks. 
This afternoon while I was doing yard work a medium size reddish bat 
fluttered out of my open garage door. With temps. almost to 70 degrees F 
today I was not too surprised. 'Had my binocs handy so I observed it as it 
preened from a hanging "perch" a few feet away ( Eastern Red Bat, Lasiurus 
borealis ? ). It soon flew off in it's zig-zag flight looking for lunch I 
suppose, it was a sunny 2PM. From out of nowhere a Coopers Hawk appears, and 
after a short chase and with seemingly little effort, catches it and carries 
it off to a near by limb. Bat for lunch.
Confucius may have had a saying going something like " a hungry but patient 
bat may live to be an old bat"....

      Richard Connors
      Nashville


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