BATS!!!

As summer winds down to an end, and I am on this unbelievably long vacation, I have often found myself wandering about signs. Signs come in all shapes and sizes, diffrent forms too. Some people believe in weather signs, religious signs and I myself like to think of Mother Nature as an entity that shows us signs. Afterall don't we here in the northeast consider the first green shoot that appears in a bank of snow a sign of spring? I know I certainly do! Another favorite sign of mine is sighting the first robin.

But I digress, the sign that appeared today, in my bathroom no less, was in the form of a bat. I'm not sure how old of a bat it is, I didn't stop to inquire. Seeing as this is the first bat I've ever been this close to, well, a little research was in order. What I found is linked below. Our local animal shelter said they didn't come out for things like this, well, I certainly didn't expect them to, I just needed some information. I was instructed in no uncertain terms to never.... ever.... touch the bat with my hands. It was at this point that I wanted to mention I did have a college degree and was aware of how to use the interent but I restrained myself. -Although I did roll my eyes since the nice man couldn't see me. What I really wanted to know was 1- could I keep the bat in a box as a tempory measure (we have cats, not to mention dogs) and 2- could I wait to release my napping friend until it was dark? Everyone knows they fly at night and sleep during the day. Don't they?

For more about bats-

From the Smithsonian-

http://www.hrw.com/science/si-science/biology/animals/batfacts/batfacts.html

http://www.earthlife.net/mammals/bat-man.html

The saga continues.....