Echolocation-not in service!

If it was....do you think you would end up here! Stuck between the screen and the window of my closet? So, let me back up. I went into my closet (which has a lovely window!) and saw something on the screen. At first I was thinking "What on earth??" "Is it a frog?" (Ok, I know that doesn't make any sense. I mean this thing was on the screen about 7 feet from the window sill which means probably 14 feet from the ground below. This wasn't a rational moment-it was strictly, critter ID!) Jeremy was coming in behind me and said "Oh, dog it's a bat!" ("Oh, dog"???Where did that come from? Rest assured, such horrible slang has been removed! :-) ) Of course all the boys hustled outside to see what was going on-and of course, I sent them with a camera and watched from inside!



So, turns out the screen on my window has a slight bend in it(Wonder who caused that?? Hmmm, just guessing it had something to do with the crew that just flew out of doors to get a closer look at the bat!) Just enough I guess for his guy to fly through and get stuck.



Jeremy took off the screen and lowered it down to the ground. Yep it was a bat! But it looks an awful lot like a mouse..with some wings on the side.

Of course, it's not enough to just look at the bat at this point. The bat must now be shaken off of the screen to see if it can fly!

So now the bat opens its wings and falls to the grass...

Look at that thing! Yuck! And just so you know, I was reminding them....don't touch it! It might have rabies! (See dad, I remembered what you said before! :-) ) So they're all hunched over looking at it and taking some pictures. They were thinking that it was probably hurt or maybe even dead....or maybe close to dead....

NOPE! Not dead...not even close. Mr. Bat turned around and gave Jeremy a little greeting. Doesn't look like a friendly, does it??

Well, the boys proceeded to pick it up with a stick and transfer it to a "safer" location i.e. one where the chickens or goats (or Jackson) wouldn't find it and possibly try to eat it.

They put it in the front flower bed. And shocker! It was gone just a few minutes later.

Jeffrey has since seen another couple of bats flying around at night. I don't mind, b/c they eat mosquitoes, they just need to STAY OUT of my closet...and away from my screens!