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| Look...up there!! | On preachers mound... give us a bat sermon!! | |
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| Looking on some of the ledges near the ceiling we found some dead bats... | usually not dead from disease... they die like all other animals... | it just that when they die, some scavenger eats them up.. we don't get to find too many bodies. |
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| We actually found four this year but none showed the signs of WNS... just old age and decayed.... | Nice size mat of Myotis! | Whoo hoo... another one!! |
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| Look on the right bat and you can see a parasite in his ear!! yucko! | Good to finally see mats...even if they are small, at least we're seeing them! | Another one bites the dust! |
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| We first thought that was some kind of poop to the left of him... | But it was mold covering a decaying dead bat... | Mel picked him up and examined him... |
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| turned him around and he was in good shape (err...other than being dead). | Good face....smile! | |
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| Thanks to our 11 volunteers and staff for helping out with our count this year!! | It was a really nice afternoon so we all decided to walk back to the parking lot. | ...err... I forgot how far the parking lot was... next year I want the tram again!! <grin> Final Count: 5,737 |
