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Hello again: July 27, 2013 On the evening of July 15 I saw one bat briefly over the back lawn at 9:38 (watched from 9:30-9:50; sunset about 9:12). Today I noticed 2 bat droppings. One on a sloping ledge over the electric meter box and one on a shelter for the wheelchair lift control. Both under the same wooden shutter as before. Tonight under cloudy and fairly calm conditions I watched from 9:10-9:25; sunset 8:58. Just after 9:15 there were 5 bat passes over the back lawn in the space of about 20 seconds. Very likely one bat making 5 passes but it is some comfort to see normal looking activity. CORRECTION: There were actually two pellets on July 15. The second was on the lift control shelter but covered by the control when I noticed the other pellet and sent that first e-mail. And only <3" of the sloping shelf over the door is below the shutter. Yt, Dave Webster, Kentville ----- Original Message ----- From: "David & Alison Webster" <dwebster@glinx.com> To: <NatureNS@chebucto.ns.ca> Sent: Monday, July 15, 2013 5:10 PM Subject: bat > Hello, July 15, 2013 > Today for the first time this year I saw evidence of a bat under our > wooden shutters; one bat dropping on a board that runs above our back door > and lies below a wooden shutter. > > Even when there were many bats I rarely saw more than one dropping on > this sloping board. They tend to stick to the wall when fresh, fall when > dry and roll off. > > I have watched for bats in the yard several evenings at sunset +>20 > minutes and saw none but wind was marginal for bat feeding. > > Yt, Dave Webster, Kentville
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