It’s spring here and MT and I have started our weekly hikes again. Â Our destination turnout out to be very Halloween Bingo appropriate.
“I vant to suck your … fruit.”
Grey headed flying foxes. Â Cuties that will eat all the fruit off your trees, but not much else.
Awww! I love zem!!!!
I do too – they’re fun to watch and sometimes squabble with each other. so cute.
The only bats we have are tiny. A friend of mine used to get head-butted by them when walking her dog at dusk.
These definitely aren’t tiny – their bodies are, but their wingspan can be 6ft across. I’ve never seen them anywhere except in these trees, and flying overhead at dusk, over our house , looking for fruit trees. to raid. But they’re fun to watch at dusk, swooping over the houses. Feels like a sign that summer is coming. 🙂
Either that or a vampire apocalypse is about to happen. 😉
or that; Australia has had droughts, floods, firestorm, mouse plagues and covid pandemics. Why not a vampire apocalypse? I’m not sure it would make the news cycle at this point. 😀
😀
What a showoff, Halloween Bingo themed walks.
I’m too indoctrinated by horror movies, I would have left shrieking when I caught site of all of them.
It’s definitely a … moment, the first time you see them. But they’re visually orientated, so they don’t use echo-location, which makes the chances of them coming too near almost zero. But I can totally understand the indoctrination. 🙂