Not your everyday visitor - UPDATE!

* As darkness fell tonight she and the babe took flight from the upstairs window, hooray!

This Hoary Bat with her baby clinging to her was found like this on the ground early this morning.  She hissed with each snap of the camera shutter. We placed her in a dog kennel in the woods out of harm's way for the day, with the hope that she will recover and fly away at dusk when we open the door from the high-altitude second story window. "Strong, tough, and beautiful, the hoary bat stands out among American bat species for its unusual adaptability . . ."
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Night Lights

Spring's freshness is waning and summer is settling in, bringing new pleasures to our days and nights. Every type of flora and fauna is lush and abundant this year, and Fireflies are no exception.  In our family we call them lightning bugs.

A required event each day after dark is a walk in the meadow to witness the lights twinkling just above the ground and also those twinkling above in our Milky Way galaxy.

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