CH> Today at the golf course. Breezzy, Sunny and a bit hot in the
 CH> eighties... Near a Tree at one of the tee offs was something flapping
 CH> fiercely at and away from the tree. I asked my hubby what the heck is
 CH> that?  He said, it's a bat. A BAT? HERE? Gee maybe it's lost. In
 CH> broad daylight yet. Maybe a fruit bat? The tree it was near was a
 CH> creping myrtle still with flowers.

 BA> Lost or sick.  Or maybe the wind shook it out of the tree it was in,
 BA> sometimes they'll roost in a hollow tree.

Though it wasn't windy, that it fell out of the tree is plausible.
Could be an errant golf boll hit the tree.

Given our above 'normal' (whatever that is) humidity this year..
(compared to the drought of the last three)- the bat prolly thought
the tree was as good a place to be as a cave (BTW one does not talk on
the golf course. One whispers  You might upset a golfer's hard work
otherwise. heh.) (Why is it though If you're going to sneeze it's
going to be right as a golfer is about to whack the ball? )

 BA> A year or two ago I woke up in the middle of the night after having
 BA> felt a sudden
 BA> draft right over my head.  I remember thinking "...that's an awfully
 BA> big moth..." as
 BA> I was waking up - turned on the light and there was a bat headed right
 BA> for me - past
 BA> me and out the bedroom door.  I finally caught it (in a metal can),
 BA> took it to the front
 BA> door and tossed him into the air outside.

You mean you didn't scream EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEK!?  Congrats on
handling the situation the way you did. :)

 BA> Bats (that aren't rabid) aren't harmful, and they eat a LOT of bugs. 
 BA> Sometimes you
 BA> can see one or two patrolling around a street or yard light at night.

 True they do. Eat a lot of bugs. And yes I know they fly by "sonar."


Cindy

... I tried to contain myself. But I escaped.

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