[TN-Bird] Wintering Bats

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
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