going batty.

[bikething]

Well I certainly wasn't expecting that!

Sat at my computer browsing the web as you do. The house is locked up, all windows shut (and have been all day)

A large shadow flutters across the light - I'm thinking "that was a big moth" but I don't turn quickly enough to see what caused it.

The shadow disappears and after 20 minutes of fruitless searching for the culprit I resume my position at the PC...

Then under the table, something grabs my knee

I roll the chair back slowly to find this little chap:


I opened the window for it to escape but it didn't want to leave at first....

However it turned out to be camera shy so I only managed to get the one shot (no flash so a bit blurry) before it legged (winged?) it

I'm amazed at how noisy their sonic 'clicks' are up close

 

[British Red]

Got to love a flittermouse

Bet that cured any constipation!

 

[Mesquite]

That's a close encounter you weren't expecting for sure

 

[Harvestman]

You have a pipistrelle on your knee! You don't see that every day.

Great post.

 

[Toddy]

That's a bit different
I hear the flittermice as they hunt along the trees beside the house, catching the moths that I'm not so fond of.

Kind of glad that so far we haven't had them in the house though Bet that was a bit of :yikes: moment

cheers,
M

 

[Clouston98]

Wow! Bet that was a shock- but a nice one. We get them round here and we we used to live but I've never seen one as up lose as that!

 

[John Fenna]

We have a couple of roosts around us - a couple in different parts of our roof.
It always used to be that while I was away on exped a bat would come into the house and visit my wife.
Next door had it worse.... their first floor ceilings did not quite meet the top of the walls (brick walls built on top of WOODEN JOISTS!) and one day the lady of the house took a clean Terry nappy from the airing cupboard and opened it up to find a baby bat already using it!
Our loft was home to some Pipistrels (until it got too dirty for them) and several babies died after falling into an old Tea chest and not being able to get out. Their skeletons are beautiful!