Bats
Last night we hiked up ridge trail for our first lesson in bat surveying. We set up the mist-nets around dusk and then waited. We sat on a tarp nearby, used our backpacks as pillows, while chatting and stargazing. Every once in a while we caught a glimpse of the dark shadow of a bat swoop down for insects. Before we knew it we had caught a few species of bats. We worked as a team to untangle the bats, take and record their measurements and identify the species before releasing them back into the wild.
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