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 Fowl photographin, animal lovin, thread trollin, dry bag humpin, canoe canoodler
Vancouver, BC
Canada
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Posted - 07/23/2009 : 10:57 PM
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I thought it was dead till I got really close to take a better shot, then it suddenly dropped off the rafters and nearly hit my lens hood and mid picture..!
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Hope, BC
Canada
7100 Posts |
Posted - 07/23/2009 : 11:14 PM
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Nice Shots! BUT GAWWWWWDDDD I h8 Bats!!!! |
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Penhold, Alberta
Canada
2014 Posts |
Posted - 07/24/2009 : 02:41 AM
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Ace's... they're just mice with wings. They eat they're own weight in insects each day which puts them on my good species list! |
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Burnaby, BC
Canada
248 Posts |
Posted - 07/24/2009 : 08:09 AM
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| Great photo of it taking off! |
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Fleece thong wearin, Buntzen Lurkin, mystic poet mountain man and international spokesman of the friends of the white squirrel society
Port Moody, B.C.
Canada
5910 Posts |
Posted - 07/24/2009 : 08:24 AM
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| Crappy photographer ! Where's the nest? And I don't see any eggs either ! |
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Fowl photographin, animal lovin, thread trollin, dry bag humpin, canoe canoodler
Vancouver, BC
Canada
4039 Posts |
Posted - 07/24/2009 : 3:27 PM
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| But I thought these fellows were coughed up by vampires and never laid eggs? |
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Mysterious, pop can stove stashin', gps totin', overnighter virgin, wannabe tentmaker and foul weather wuss who rides a thumper to the trailhead with wonderdog Max to hike the Chilliwack Valley
Chwk
Canada
4910 Posts |
Posted - 07/24/2009 : 4:17 PM
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"I'm so Goth, I sh*t bats!"
Can't remember where I heard that one...but this brings to mind something that happened to us last year.
2 weeks camping up near 100 Mile, pack up early morning and drive non-stop back to the 'Wack. Upon returning home, we opened up our tent trailer to get all the junk out of it and lo and behold we have a stowaway...
A bat, much like the one in the pictures, rode all the way back with us in our folded tent trailer. Scooped him into a dust pan, whereon he gave a few squeaks and flew off.
Wonder if he ever made it home...
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Popkum, BC
Canada
5887 Posts |
Posted - 07/24/2009 : 4:51 PM
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| Lovely Bat pictures Monster. We had one fly around in our house and luckily got it out before our cat caught it. Hurray for insect eating Bats! |
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Montreal, QC
Canada
716 Posts |
Posted - 07/25/2009 : 06:48 AM
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Those are nice shots. I had a bat swooping around my bedroom (6' ceilings) years ago at 3:30am. When I first saw the bat, it had crawled through the wall and was sitting in a window well. I thought - gee, that's a funny looking mouse. Then it started to fly.
I don't know how you managed to get a clear pic of the thing moving. |
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Happy go lucky, plaid wearin, postholin, safeway gaitor sportin, old-school film shootin, giver of many regards
Abbotsford, B.C.
Canada
13477 Posts |
Posted - 07/25/2009 : 06:56 AM
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Should be considered a hiker's best friend. Train them and have them shoulder ride , would be a saving on bug dope and ecologically sound. .....Them and swallows to help keep the mosquitoes and black flies down.
Now if they only would listen.
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Burnaby, BC
Canada
248 Posts |
Posted - 07/25/2009 : 08:23 AM
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Speaking of bat stories, we saw this guy practicing his swimming a few weeks ago on Okanagan Lake:
He flew by in broad daylight while we were having lunch, then showed up an hour or so later again chasing bugs over the lake. Seems the sunlight confused him though, and he crashed into the water instead.
Immediately the butterfly-stroke began, and he was back at shore within a minute or two. We watched him for a while as he was panting hard, waiting to dry out in the sun on the shoreline. |
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North Vancouver
230 Posts |
Posted - 07/25/2009 : 08:54 AM
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| Wow - nice flight shot. Where was this? They seem to be endangered - years ago Little Brown Bats were a fixture on the North Shore, wheeling and diving in the evening sky on a summer evening, but the sky's been empty for a long time now... |
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Fowl photographin, animal lovin, thread trollin, dry bag humpin, canoe canoodler
Vancouver, BC
Canada
4039 Posts |
Posted - 07/25/2009 : 1:37 PM
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Originally posted by Anemone
Those are nice shots. I don't know how you managed to get a clear pic of the thing moving.
It's just a matter of using fast enough glass and of course having a good flash helps allot, but after that it's just trial and error. This fellow was taken out in Ladner, after a rather interesting canoe paddle ;) |
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Strange bird..
