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Came across this bat, but not sure what type it is, it tested the Sony just looked it up and think its a Common Pipistrelle
Spotted this guy out in the midday sun constantly diving and drinking from a small pond. Unfortunately it wasn't long before a Magpie also spotted it. RIP Long Eared Bat.
Explored 16th June 2022, 28th September 2022 and 25th January 2023
VP-BAT - Boeing B-747SP-21 - CSDS Aircraft Sales and Leasing
(ex Qatar Amiri Flight col.)
at Hamilton International Airport (YHM)
c/n 21.648 - built in 1979 for PAN AM -
operated by Qatar Amiri Flight from 1995 as VVIP-aircraft -
currently offered for sale by the owner CSDS Aircraft Sales and Leasing - aircraft can be delivered fresh from C-check and paint or AS-IS-WHERE-IS with a Ferry permit - 2-spare engines and large spare parts inventory included.. Aircraft flew on the 03/10/2018 from Kelowna, BC to Hamilton, ON (YHM)
stored at YHM at the moment (arrived 03/10/2018) -
for sale sinc. Apr 2016 - 68602 hrs - 10288 cycles -
the re-reg. to N7477S did not happen?
A leaf which has seen Better Days, on a walkway in Hermann Park, The shadow is a selfie, which normally I would avoid, but I really needed to catch this in a few seconds, on the run at the end of a beautiful day. In fact on one of my Better Days!
Yet another instance of a Barnett Newman Zip coupled with botanical jetsam &/or a topological equivalent of a disc—probably not the first reading that popped into your mind.
For #BetterDays #FlickrFriday and also “Signs of the Season” for the Flickr Lounge. Unaccountably refused to upload—even after export to jpg—so I’m posting a screen dump instead with time and location corrected to the original. The geotag shifted by a few meters in the process.
Happy Flickr Friday!
One evening, I was sitting on the deck watching the sun go down, when a HUGE bird flew into the palm trees in front of me. I jumped up to get a closer look and realized that it was a BAT hanging there! It stayed there a while, feeding on the palm berries/fruit/seeds. They are called Monkey Faced Fruit Bats.The pictures I took were not that great because it was super low light and I didn't want to mess with my settings and miss out on the photos.
The Archaeological Sites of Bat, Al-Khutm and Al-Ayn are a group of beehive tombs or necropolis from the Hafit period in the 3rd Millennium BC. They were declared World Heritage by UNESCO. The partially destructed beehive tombs are what you can see as accumulation of stones in the center and on the top of the hill.
Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archaeological_Sites_of_Bat,_Al-Khu...
I had to laugh at this black flying fox. It's posture looked so uncomfortable. This bat was part of a large bat community in Yeppoon.
Bat-eared Foxes, Auob riverbed, Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park.
These nocturnal animals are mostly seen in the early mornings or late afternoons. When foraging they position their ears towards the ground to pick up sounds made by invertebrates - their main food source is harvester termites. Having tiny teeth their diet is restricted to insects, small rodents and fruit.
Bat-eared foxes are endemic to Africa. There are two subspecies: Otocyon megalotis megalotis is found throughout South Africa, Namibia and Botswana, and Otocyon megalotis virgatus is found in Somalia, Ethiopia, Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda.
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a nice encounter with a bat-eared fox family on our way back to the camp. these foxes are mainly nocturnal and leave their den at dusk. Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park, South Africa
Photos Carol took of bats outside of Tucson in 2018 - Bats are one of the most iconic figures of Halloween. Feared for their thirst for blood and tendency to surprise unsuspecting hikers who disturb their slumber, bats give people the heebie jeebies. But that is not fair.
Arizona is home to 28 species of bats, more than almost any other state. Bats are the only true flying mammals and are valuable human allies. Worldwide, they are primary predators of vast numbers of insect pests, saving farmers and foresters billions of dollars annually and helping to control insect-spread human diseases. For example, large colonies of Mexican free-tailed bats eat hundreds of tons of moths each week, especially the moths that prey on cotton crops. Bats can eat up to 1,200 mosquitoes in an hour.
Although bats play key roles in keeping insect populations in balance, they are North America’s most rapidly declining land mammals. Declines are often caused by human fear and persecution, and each of us can help by learning how to live with these animals.
The Pallid bat has yellowish brown to cream colored fur on its back and white fur on its belly. What is most noticeable about this bat are its large ears. The ears are almost half as long as the total length of its head and body. Because they have such large ears they are able to detect the sound of their prey's footsteps on the ground. Also, its eyes are larger than most species of North American bats. Pallid bats are social creatures and live in groups. Their groups are called colonies. And the size of these colonies can range anywhere from 12-100 individuals. Most of these colonies have more than 20 bats. The largest recorded colony had 162 individuals.
Pallid bats weigh 0.7-1.2 oz. (20-35g). A pallid bat can eat half of its body weight in one night. Imagine people doing that! The pallid bat may live as many as 10 years in the wild.
Pallid bats are also more effective pollinators than some of the nectarivorous bats with whom they compete for cacti. By eating fruit and nectar from plants, bats carry seeds and pollen to new places. Not so scary anymore, huh? Well, there is one thing about bats that's pretty scary…it's that they are disappearing.
Bats aren't really blind—in fact, the larger species of bats can see better than humans—but in order to "see" in absolute darkness, they use echolocation, which means they emit high-pitched sounds (inaudible to the human ear) and listen as the sound waves bounce off nearby surfaces. In fact, with echolocation bats can see everything but color and detect obstacles as fine as a human hair. Pretty cool! So the next time someone calls you "blind as a bat," you can go ahead and take it as a compliment.
Pallid bats are a unique bat species because they are heterothermic, meaning they can be either poikilothermic or homoeothermic depending on the time of year.
From this angle the peaks of The Cobbler (Ben Arthur), top left of picture, look to my mind as resembling the 'bat signal' from Batman, or am I mad (rhetorical question). Taken from the top of Ben A'an in The Trossachs, Scotland.
Another Bat-Sunday rock concert.
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I am (very slowly!!!) starting to disassemble my Space 2019 builds and packing them away.
It will take a long time, because I want to pack them in their original form and in numbered bags like they were when I bought them.
Figuring out what I have modified in the last year and digging up all the original bricks is taking a lot of time.
But building the sets once more in their original form is fun again.
All in all it will take several months before I am completely ready to let go of space 2019. It is just not that interesting for images I thing.
Tacca chantrieri
(Common names: Bat Flower, Cats Whiskers, Devil Flower)
A most unusual plant introduced from parts of Malaysia, India, and East Asia, the Bat Plant will make you look twice. The main attraction of the plant is the strange, unique, purple-black flowers. The flowers superficially resemble a bat in flight with long whiskers, and can grow up to 10 inches long. Taccas can be picky about their environmental conditions; however they grow fast and flower a lot when the conditions are just right. The Bat Plant should be planted in partial shade and in a humid and warm environment. Soil should remain consistently moist, not allowing the plant to dry out between waterings. In winter months, when temperatures drop to 40F or lower, the Bat Plant should be moved indoors, or into a greenhouse to protect it from cold damage. Makes a great container plant and is a real conversation piece.
33012 storms through Sevenoaks on the last leg of the UK Railtours “Another Really Good Positioning Move”, 1Z60 0823 Princes Risborough-Tonbridge. The Bat & Ball lines curve away above the loco.
Long-tongued bat (Glossophaga soricina) feeding from nectar of a flowering tree at the Braulio Carrillo National Park in Costa Rica.
Bats play an important role in many environments around the world. Some plants depend partly or wholly on bats to pollinate their flowers or spread their seeds, while other bats also help control pests by eating insects.
You can also see why their are called Long-tongued bats here.
This is the entire Bat Family: all the figures I've posted in the last few days, plus the pets/mites. I thought it would be cool to post them all together like this as a full family shot!
(In case you can't tell, the base is in the shape of a Bat-symbol.)
I'll probably come back and edit in the full list of figs, but you'll have to go back to the others for now if you need to identify someone.
Left to right for pets:
Baby Goliath, Ace the Bat-Hound, Alfred the cat, the Bat-cow, and Bat-Mite.
Part 7 of 7.