[TN-Bird] Fwd: Wintering Bats

 
 In a message dated 1/27/03 8:53:23 AM Central Standard Time, 
eastin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx writes:
 
 << Subj:    [TN-Bird] Wintering Bats
  Date: 1/27/03 8:53:23 AM Central Standard Time
  From: eastin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx (Todd V. Eastin)
  Sender:   tn-bird-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  Reply-to: eastin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  To:   tn-bird@xxxxxxxxxxxxx (TN-bird)
  
  I know this is a question about a mammal.  But we have a broad range of 
interests in the birding community; and I have a question about a surprising 
event that took place in our house last night.  While reading in bed, my wife 
and I were briefly visited by a bat.  It circled the room a couple of times 
and left.  OK, this opens us up to all sorts of peripheral questions, 
including how it got in the house in the first place.  But what is bat doing 
flying around in the winter anyway?  Don't they usually hibernate or migrate? 
 No identification of species was possible.  Perhaps unfortunate for the bat, 
it also visited a friend who was staying upstairs and he put it out a 
window....outside temperature 19 degrees.  Comments invited.
  
  Todd Eastin
  Shady Valley,
  Johnson Co., TN >>
 
 
 On December 16, at 2:30 pm, I drove past park HQ at Shelby Forest State 
Park, nw Shelby County.  The day was bright, sunny and cool.  I was shocked 
to see a red bat fly directly across the road in front of my truck, from the 
HQ building toward the trees on the other side.  One afternoon in late 
November, while walking my dog about dusk, I noticed a bat of unknown species 
flying over my neighbor's yard.  What all these late season chiropteran 
comings and goings signify, I have no idea.
 
 Van Harris
 Millington (Shelby County), TN
 
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