ABC - Alabaster Bat Count 2009 - page 2 of 3

Time for all friends of Alabaster Caverns State Park to assemble and help out our friend (and Park Director) Mike. Our job is to go into the cave and find all of the nooks and cranny's that our three kinds of friends like to hide and sleep away the winter. Our three friends you ask? The Common Cave Bat (Cave Myotis)(the main one living in the cave), the Pip (a little red colored bat)(usually found in warm areas), and the not too common Big Brown Bat (which looks like he's wearing a fur sable coat).

After the group finished Mike went in and did the calcuations while his wife, Sharon, fed us until we about burst!

Our final count (a bit down from last year) was 14,200 total.

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