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Beyond wrote:
Here it is November 8, and the lone Bat that resides in my little barn is out flying around in back!

Ann wrote:You've got a bat! I'm envious!

Ann

Don't you have bats in Sweden??

Ann wrote:

Don't you have bats in Sweden??

Sure we do, but not around my house!

Ann

Beyond wrote:

Ann wrote:
You've got a bat! I'm envious!

YUP!! My own personal bug removal system. Dragonflies by day, The Lone Bat by night. When you live next to a swamp.... ya need all the help ya can get!

geckzilla wrote:
I had a couple of families of bats living in a cozy nook they'd discovered in my old house in California. I thought they were amazing but there was one disadvantage to the things... guano. Lots and lots of guano. It really starts to pile up and stink after a while.

http://www.visual-memory.co.uk/amk/doc/0112.html wrote:
<<In the 1958 James Bond novel of Dr. No we are told that the eponymous villain changed his German name upon assuming U.S. citizenship (as did Dr. Strangelove and Henry Kissinger), and wanted to force missiles off their intended courses and targets. As a front for his secret island base, he employed Cuban workers to mine guano, an ingredient in fertilizers and munitions which probably inspired the name of the Strangelove character Col. "Bat" Guano (Keenan Wynn). Dr. Julius No meets his just demise when Bond entombs him in a guano avalanche, which apparently was too much even for the film version.>>

Beyond wrote:

Ann wrote:
Bats are cutesy. I'm sure this one doesn't go to the bathroom too often.

Ann, for a bat, or any other wild critter, the whole outdoors is 'their' bathroom. So they don't have to go anywhere to -do 'their' thing-

Quick, Robin, to the Batroom

geckzilla wrote:I had a couple of families of bats living in a cozy nook they'd discovered in my old house in California. I thought they were amazing but there was one disadvantage to the things... guano. Lots and lots of guano. It really starts to pile up and stink after a while. You can wash away the solid bits but I guess the urine still saturates the dirt and surrounding house structure.

Beyond wrote:Orin, maybe because you're not as 'Bats' as the rest of us

orin stepanek wrote:

Beyond wrote:
Orin, maybe because you're not as 'Bats' as the rest of us

Hey Beyond; I don't know about 'Bats'; but I did have a little one sleeping under my Lilac bush one summer though. It flew away the next day and I never did see it again; or maybe a cat thought it was a mouse!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Die_Fledermaus wrote:

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<<Die Fledermaus (The Bat) is an operetta composed by Johann Strauss II to a German libretto by Karl Haffner and Richard Genée.

The original source for Die Fledermaus is a farce by German playwright Julius Roderich Benedix (1811–1873), Das Gefängnis (The Prison). Another source is a French vaudeville play, Le réveillon, by Henri Meilhac and Ludovic Halévy. This was first translated by Karl Haffner into a non-musical play to be produced in Vienna. However, the peculiarly French custom of the réveillon (a midnight supper party) caused problems, which were solved by the decision to adapt the play as a libretto for Johann Strauss, with the réveillon replaced by a Viennese ball. At this point Haffner's translation was handed over for adaptation to Richard Genée, who subsequently claimed not only that he had made a fresh translation from scratch but that he had never even met Haffner.

The operetta premièred on 5 April 1874 at the Theater an der Wien in Vienna, and has been part of the regular operetta repertoire ever since. It was performed in New York under Bial at the Stadt Theatre on 21 November 1874, and then in English in London at the Alhambra Theatre on 18 December 1876, with the score heavily adapted by Hamilton Clarke. Its first London performance in the original German was in 1895. According to the archivist of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, "Twenty years after its production as a lyric opera in Vienna, Mahler raised the artistic status of Strauss’s work by producing it at the Hamburg Opera House … all the leading opera houses in Europe, notably Vienna and Munich, have brightened their regular repertoire by including it for occasional performance.">>

TNT wrote:Once this past summer, I was swimming in my pool around dusk when I saw a bat swoop down from the sky and drink the water! I thought that was amazing.

starstruck wrote:

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Hey Beyond, my lone bat would like to meet your lone bat!!! . . . maybe they could flit around together in happy harmony



This was a lucky capture just a few minutes ago as dusk was falling. Can't believe I caught it in focus! I think you can even just make out the moth he/she was homing-in on!

Still mild enough for them to be on the wing each evening here
(...long may it last!)