Wednesday, October 23, 2013

Bats

Strolling one evening up on a hill not far from here I noticed large numbers of swallows and idly wondered if they were gathering for a migration to the south or did Kurdish swallows hang around for the winter even though it is cold here.

On closer inspection I was surprised to see that they were not swallows but hundreds of bats. Their size and movement as they swoop after insects are that of a swallow but the slightly larger bat shaped wings gave the game away.

New Zealand has two species of bat, but they are much smaller and so rare that I have only spotted them two or three times.

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