[Maine-birds] Bats

I have seen a couple of bats this summer in Sidney --I think they roost in my neighbor's old chicken house because I see them over that way. I also counted six bats along Rt. 137 from the S. Gage Road in Oakland to Alden Camps the other night. They were feeding over the road. I've seen some on the Pond Road in Sidney/Oakland as well. Unfortunately we don't have them at our house any more, not since spring 2014.

We saw at least two bats up at Baxter this summer--we had to escort them out of the bunkhouse at South Branch pond. We observed bats feeding each night we were there, but hard to tell if there were more than "our" bats. Bats used to roost behind a sign on the gatehouse at Matagamon. When we arrived I checked on them, but there weren't any. Dana (at the gatehouse) said it had been years.

Last summer we had a kind of magical experience with some that I think were passing through. My son and I were conducting frog rescue (moving frogs out of the road) when a group of four to six bats came swooping low among us foraging. We stood there as they flew around us enjoying them all the more because we hadn't had any bats for most of the summer.

Julia

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