Connie's Ramblings

Found another Brown Myotis Bat in our grill cover this afternoon. This one was smaller than the one from last week that was hanging out in our deck umbrella. He was also very upset to be disturbed – kept trying to crawl back into the darkness of the cover instead of flying off. At one point he jumped at me when I tried to get him out.

I’m going to call the Ledge Light Health District on Monday to find out how to discourage them from hanging out on my deck. Don’t need any of us getting bit or scratched and then having to go in for the series of rabies shots!

There were some rumours last night that we might get some high winds from the bands of “Bill” heading by so I had Jon close up the umbrella on the back of the deck. This afternoon, after no rain or high winds, I decided to have him open it back up so it would shade the back door.

Shortly after going out he came running back in: “Mom, you have to see this! There’s a bat in our umbrella!” Sure enough, a Little Brown Myotis was trying to take a nap. Here are a couple shots. Click on the images for larger versions.