At 6am, a microbat was flying around my bedroom trying to get home for the day. It was in kinda the right place, 'home' being the bedroom walls, but the entry hole is in the exterior cladding. Eventually it found the window we'd opened and flew away.

I didn't get a photo, so here's one of the first bat that did the same thing - SD card for scale.

#Bats #Microbats #Mammals #Nature #Tasmania #EarlyMorning

RT @EVirusBioinfC
#Microbats and #megabats express a RIG-I that is not substantially different from the human counterpart. #SARSCoV2 #bats [preprint co-authored by EVBC members @martinhoelzer @c_drosten M. Marz @JenaRNA @Friedemann1] https://doi.org/10.1101/2023.02.08.527785

🥁 The results are in from a 3-day poll across 3 social media platforms on what you think of bats 🦇 This is just a scene setter for my new bat project, so it didn't drill down on the detail (my project is looking at insect-eating bats), but there were some great comments shared from a total 138 respondents. Mastodon peeps, you were the most generous - 89 respondents from here alone and wonderful stories and art 🙌🤩 These thoughts and stories will feed into some creative sound art ideas yet to take shape, but if you have any comments you'd like to add beneath this post, they'll be warmly welcomed!

#Bats #Chiroptera #MicroBats #BatEcology #EcoArt #EnvironmentalArt

Recording is now underway for the 🦇 project I'm getting started on, monitoring insect-eating bats. I've been tasked with recording on an off-road bush track. Just as well I have a few of those! I have two AudioMoths on the job until Tuesday, as I've configured my recorder with the same settings as the one provided for this citizen science project, and to cover another section of the track. I'll make the 'who's behind the project' info more public once I know more about how the creative part of this project is going to take shape

And I'm looking for 🦇 stories - more so from people who really don't like them for whatever reason. I'd love to hear why. Message me!

#bats #chiroptera #microbats #BatEcology #EcoArt #EnvironmentalArt #SocialEcology #bioacoustics #AcousticEcology #BatEnvironments #RegionalNSW #RegionalArts #ArtProject #ecopulse #SoundArtist #SoundArt #FieldRecording

We are blessed to have a colony of micro bats share-house living with us. They are as big as a handspan when their wings are spread #Microbats

Found this microbat having a kip in the laundry this morning (we don't have a belfrey) ;) Maybe a Nyctophilus geoffroyi - lesser long-eared bat? I don't know bats at all really ...

#Bats #Microbats #Summer #Ecology #Wildlife