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| Lots of activity from just doing a bat crossword puzzle... | to word searches... | To a beanbag toss....as insects.... |
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| to feed the bat.... | Lots of static displays for the public to learn about all kinds of things about bats! | |
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| We even had a live bat for people to see close up... | Hands on furs for the little ones... | |
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| The bat hide-n-seek game was pretty challenging... the hidey holes were locations bats would sleep in Oklahoma | So you had to look pretty hard to find the 12 bats in our little bat grounds | They can be anywhere... in fact, this IS one of the fav spots for the parks Big Brown bats... but not today... too much activity. |
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| Peek a boo! | ||
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| Mel taking down some of the equipment to do live mist netting - bat capture | ||
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| Lots of equipment needed to stretch a net about 30 feet wide and 5 foot tall | We'll invited the public down to the entrance of the cave where we have set up the net and show them live bats | and we'll identify them for the park so they know what is living in the cave. |
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| Even though Mike here is the Park Director and knows all the bats personally! <grin> | the net is like a hair net you wear while working food products... very fine...and can get tangled very easily! | The public is ready... let's go! |
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| Running the net across the trail... hopefully we'll get a few | Got one! | |
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| Probably the funnest part for families was the bat scavenger hunt | Good for all ages from little... | to teens.... |
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| They can be anywhere! | You can hear what bat chriping sounds like... when they all talk in a cave | they are pretty noisy! |
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| Craft projects for the kids | Finished! Are those kids or bats? Can't tell!! | Mike and his volunteer crew helping out on a slow time.... |
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| This one got quite involved!! Whoo hoo! | ||
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| Letting one of our captured free tail bats loose after capture... put it on a tree and he took a time to fly away | but he did... <grin> | |
