My First Bat! (1 Viewer)

gthang

Ford Focus Fanatic: mmmmmm... 3.1415926535.....

• Jul 22, 2004

• #1

Well, not really.

But the first one that I've tried to photograph.

I succeeded somewhat, and was wondering what the most common NY state bats are. According to ENature.com there are 8 species in my region. I would like someone to list the bats below by abundance, if possible.

Big Brown Bat
Silver-Haired Bat
Red Bat
Hoary Bat
Eastern Small-Footed Myotis
Little Brown Bat
Northern Myotis
Eastern Pipistrelle

I will have a picture ready as soon as I can.

 

Charles Harper

Régisseur

• Jul 22, 2004

• #2

... I always suspected you were bats, GT...

 

gthang

Ford Focus Fanatic: mmmmmm... 3.1415926535.....

• Jul 22, 2004

• #3

LOL, charles!

Anyhow, not really easy to describe it:
brownish, and size was somewhere around 5 inches.
it had long ears

I will post a picture when I get home from work.

 

Charles Harper

Régisseur

• Jul 23, 2004

• #4

Sounds like every bat I ever saw (... except for those big scarey fruit bats in Cairns). I'll place my bet on Little Brown Bat-- that's sounds really abundant.

By the way, you can buy or build a bat house if you really get into this.

 

gthang

Ford Focus Fanatic: mmmmmm... 3.1415926535.....

• Jul 23, 2004

• #5

Hey charles:

Here's a few pictures.
The first is the unedited (besides cropped) full resolution image
the second is a weird filter I applied to show the length of the bat. It has been enlarged by 200%.
The third is a combination of both the above images, and kind of outlines the bat in the photo. Again, this is a 200% enlargement of the first image.

 

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Charles Harper

Régisseur

• Jul 23, 2004

• #6

Well.

This is obviously a...

Hmm-- send up the Bat Signal, Mr. Mayor-- this is a job for--

BATMAN!!

 

Joern Lehmhus

Well-known member

• Jul 26, 2004

• #7

Well, this remains an UFO sighthing to me, gthang!