Batses!

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Port Macquarie grey headed flying fox colony leaves its roost at twilight. There are about 50,000 bats in the colony.











Looking North along the flight line

Comments

[damienps.livejournal.com]

Lots of little bats.

[dewhitton.livejournal.com]

Big bats. 1m wingspans.

[damienps.livejournal.com]

They looked little in the photos.

[starcat-jewel.livejournal.com]

One meter? My ghod, that's HUGE!

[amazingadrian.livejournal.com]

I suppose that's why they're likened to foxes, as opposed to rodents. o_o

[mactavish.livejournal.com]

Indeed, being as they're also unlike rodents.

[dewhitton.livejournal.com]

And they're the medium-sized megabats. There are a few species that are largers.

[hedgegoth.livejournal.com]

Probably a pack of hoodlums.

Nice shots sir.

[http://users.livejournal.com/crossfire_/]

I wish we had bats like that around here. Not that I don't like our wee bats, but, you know, FLYING FOXES.

[jazzerat.livejournal.com]

Wow, that's awesome!

[swarm32.livejournal.com]

Pretty cool, though I'd hate to have a bat that big dive bombing my swimming pool. :)

[dewhitton.livejournal.com]

You should see my car. It was parked under the flight line.

[guruwench.livejournal.com]

You could still see your car afterwards?

[mactavish.livejournal.com]

He could have an excuse for going batshit crazy. :D

[dewhitton.livejournal.com]

When you hear me say "My car is a pile of crap" you'll know I'm not speaking figuratively.

[guruwench.livejournal.com]

Yay bats!! Wonderful photos.

I posted a link a couple of days ago in my LJ; bats in North America are having problems. :( You can find the story here (http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20080321.wbatdisease0321/BNStory/Science/home). Poor batses. :(

[dewhitton.livejournal.com]

I've been reading about this disease. Poor little bats. 8(

[weyrdbird.livejournal.com]

Zoom zoom zoom!:D

That's a lot of bats!

[hopeforyou.livejournal.com]

I saw a whole pile of flying foxes sleeping in the trees in the Royal Botanical Gardens in Sydney before I left... It's hard to photograph them when they're in the trees and have them look like bats unless you catch them in a wing stretch.

[acelightning.livejournal.com]