Creatures of the Night
Hal brought out his mist net to catch bats just for fun (have we mentioned yet how accommodating he was to our children?). Friday night we went to a small pond in South Canyon, strung out the net, and waited for birds and bats to come for a drink and get tangled in the net.
Long-legged Myotis (Myotis volans)
Irony of ironies: The following day, Bert DeLambert asked if we had had a good time catching bats. While we were gone, he and his wife were sitting out on their porch enjoying the evening and had watched a large black bear come down to the pond, take a drink, and pick up an old dead fish lying on the bank before walking away.
This violet-green swallow got caught right at dusk. It had beautiful, iridescent colors.
Silver-haired bat (Lasionycteris noctivagans)
Long-legged Myotis (Myotis volans)
Long-eared Myotis (Myotis evotis)
Hal caught a poorwill off the road on the drive back to the cabin. This nocturnal bird has a huge mouth to catch insects in flight.
Irony of ironies: The following day, Bert DeLambert asked if we had had a good time catching bats. While we were gone, he and his wife were sitting out on their porch enjoying the evening and had watched a large black bear come down to the pond, take a drink, and pick up an old dead fish lying on the bank before walking away.
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