What fun to have Sara come and visit our flight cage! Sara is from Tokyo and studying abroad at the University of Buffalo School of Architecture and Planning in Buffalo, NY. She is writing a book on Architecture for Animals and came by our facility after visiting the Bat Tower in Comfort, TX.
We so enjoyed her visit! And we want to be first to purchase her new book on its way to the Bestseller List!
Here is Sara taking notes in our flight cage. What a beautiful language!
We are so grateful that she translated this for us! The first word in the second line is “bat” in Japanese. Sounds like “Comoro”?
Thank you for the visit, Sara! All the best to you! We look forward to following your career!
Groot goes back to the wild! Our wonderful Seminole pup Groot was released last night at Jerry and Jim Czyzak’s property in Red Rock, TX. Jerry found Groot in her swimming pool back in July and brought him to us for drinking lessons. He soon learned to judge his angle better as he swooped down for a drink, but never forgot his pool experience. We could never get him to take more than a drop of water, even on the hottest days when others drank a whole syringe!
Last night he went home and brought with him two female Seminole friends. Those of us who witnessed the release have a feeling there will be lots more baby Seminoles at Jerry’s place next June! 🙂
The Seminole Girls were rescued by Tracy Rider and came to us from TWRC. They gave us so much joy as they learned to fly, then drink on the wing. They were among the most dependable drinkers and were the subjects of many of the drinking videos. Love these bats!
Best of luck Groot and you wonderful Seminole girls! We loved getting to know you all and will miss hanging out with you in the flight cage! We will keep with us your friendship and the memories of your trust in us. Thank you for being so patient with us and knowing we would find a great spot for you. This property has tons of pine trees, part of the Lost Pines of the Bastrop area, and you all will make fine faux pine cones as you hang in the pines all day awaiting the nightly hunt. Our thoughts will be with you always.
Here’s Groot when he first came in as a juvy. What a beautiful bat!
We’ve been trying to catch moths for filming, for quite some time now, using nets, light traps, pheromone traps,with no luck. Moths are super fast, but bats are even faster! This tri-colored bat has no problem filling her belly with moths every night!
Our yellow bat pup led off Hot Science Cool Talks at the University of Texas last night. We tabled at the Science Fair before Dr. Rebecca Lewis’ presentation of her research “Friendship and Female Power in the Lemurs of Madagascar”. Cool talk! Great crowd! Thanks for the invite!
Alvaro had been hiding in the cage for the last week or so, not being found or fed by our volunteers, but flying early to catch the most moths in the flight cage and doing pretty well on what he was able to catch. We’d see him flying but he’s so fast that he was super hard to net for a checkup. We finally netted him last night and fed him full of mealworms before getting him back where he belongs, out in the wild!
Great to get to know you Alvaro! You’ll be in our hearts and on our minds. Live Long! Watch out for the owls!
Now that most of the red bat pups have been released, the Mexican free-tailed bats have more room to strut their stuff.
Here we get a good look at the free tail and even the toe-whiskers, used for feeling their way as they back into their roosts.
