Bats and bins… #iPhoneArt
Bats and bins… #iPhoneArt
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Eastern Red Bat with three babies.
Eastern Red Bat with three babies.
Image by Life Lenses
The Eastern Red Bat (Lasiurus borealis) is a species of bat from the Vespertilionidae family. See also the Desert red bat (Lasiurus blossevillii), a related species.
Eastern red bats are widespread across eastern North America, with additional records in Bermuda. It is also scarce but widespread throughout many of the Bahamian islands. This is a medium-sized Vespertilionid, averaging weights of 9.5-14 g and measurements of 112.3 mm in total length. Adults are usually dimorphic: males have red hair while females are chestnut-colored with whitish frosting on the tips of the fur.
Like most Vespertilionids, eastern red bats are insectivorous. Moths (Lepidoptera) form the majority of the diet, but red bats also prey heavily on beetles (Coleoptera), flies (Diptera), and other insects. Echolocation calls have low minimum frequencies, but calls are highly variable ranging from (35-50 kHz). Eastern red bats are best suited for foraging in open spaces due to their body size, wing shape, and echolocation call structure. However, red bats are frequently captured by researches foraging over narrow streams and roads
Mating likely occurs in late summer or autumn and the sperm is stored in the female’s reproductive tract until spring when ovulation and fertilization occurs. In June, females usually give birth to three or four young and then roost with their young until they are weaned. Males roost alone throughout the Summer. High temperature demands associated with gestation and rearing young may limit the northern range for reproductive females. Eastern red bats often roost amongst live or dead leaves on the branches of live hardwood trees, but have also been found using loblolly pine trees in pine plantations.
In late summer, eastern red bats from the northern parts of the range may migrate south for the winter, although little is known about migration routes or overwintering range. In winter, red bats forage for insects on warm nights and even warm days. On warm days during the winter, red bats enter torpor while roosting in the canopy of hardwood or coniferous trees, but during cold bouts they crawl underneath dead leaf litter on the ground and use their furred tail as a blanket.
Bats on the wall
Bats on the wall
Image by Stig Nygaard
Well, not easy to see on this picture, but the wall around the lower fall was covered with bats.
Eastern Red Bat with three babies.
Eastern Red Bat with three babies.
Image by Life Lenses
The Eastern Red Bat (Lasiurus borealis) is a species of bat from the Vespertilionidae family. See also the Desert red bat (Lasiurus blossevillii), a related species.
Eastern red bats are widespread across eastern North America, with additional records in Bermuda. It is also scarce but widespread throughout many of the Bahamian islands. This is a medium-sized Vespertilionid, averaging weights of 9.5-14 g and measurements of 112.3 mm in total length. Adults are usually dimorphic: males have red hair while females are chestnut-colored with whitish frosting on the tips of the fur.
Like most Vespertilionids, eastern red bats are insectivorous. Moths (Lepidoptera) form the majority of the diet, but red bats also prey heavily on beetles (Coleoptera), flies (Diptera), and other insects. Echolocation calls have low minimum frequencies, but calls are highly variable ranging from (35-50 kHz). Eastern red bats are best suited for foraging in open spaces due to their body size, wing shape, and echolocation call structure. However, red bats are frequently captured by researches foraging over narrow streams and roads
Mating likely occurs in late summer or autumn and the sperm is stored in the female’s reproductive tract until spring when ovulation and fertilization occurs. In June, females usually give birth to three or four young and then roost with their young until they are weaned. Males roost alone throughout the Summer. High temperature demands associated with gestation and rearing young may limit the northern range for reproductive females. Eastern red bats often roost amongst live or dead leaves on the branches of live hardwood trees, but have also been found using loblolly pine trees in pine plantations.
In late summer, eastern red bats from the northern parts of the range may migrate south for the winter, although little is known about migration routes or overwintering range. In winter, red bats forage for insects on warm nights and even warm days. On warm days during the winter, red bats enter torpor while roosting in the canopy of hardwood or coniferous trees, but during cold bouts they crawl underneath dead leaf litter on the ground and use their furred tail as a blanket.
A Bat!
A Bat!
Image by r_neches
I found a bat clinging to the screen door to the garden in my new apartment. I tried to shoo it away (it should be out eating bugs, not amusing my cats). It wouldn’t go away, so I was worried it might be injured or sick. It expressed mild interest in some water, and then I was able to get it to go about its batty business.
Attack of the Bats
Attack of the Bats
Image by ColorblindRain
Bats bats everywhere in the rotunda section of the Hotel Breakers at Cedar Point in its celebration of Halloweekends.
we can’t stop here this is bat country
we can’t stop here this is bat country
Image by sensesmaybenumbed
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas @ Moonlight Cinema, Royal Botanic Gardens – Melbourne
Bat in the Moon
Bat in the Moon
Image by rcbodden
Long handheld exposure of the full moon behind a fluttering leaf. I thought it resembled the Bat Signal.
Giant Madagascan fruit bat
Giant Madagascan fruit bat
Image by nilsrinaldi
Giant Madagascan fruit bat, Mafia Island, Tanzania
Bat Watchers of Austin
Bat Watchers of Austin
Image by Definitive HDR
I didn’t find out what was going on until later on that day but apparently a few hundred people lined up congress bridge to watch the bats fly out from under the bridge into the night sky. I never knew bats were so interesting here in Austin. Learn something new everyday…
10 exp HDR merged in Photomatix, contrast in Lightroom, Tweaked in PS and added a few filters with Color Efex Pro.
