Listening for bats. Photo by Greg Cook.
Greg Cook reports going on a bat-listening tour at Mount Auburn Cemetery the other day. Christopher Richardson, a bat biologist at Boston University, led a group of would-be bat listeners at dusk - as part of a long-term project to study both the bats and the role of cemeteries as urban bat sanctuaries.
If you watch one city-council video this year, make it this one - and watch the woman in the lower right corner.
Found a dead bat in our backyard in Roslindale. We think it suffered an injury which caused its death, but does anyone know if there is an agency in Boston or Mass that would want to know this info or look at the body? (By the way I love bats, so no need to share your bat hysteria if you are feeling any on our behalf).
Channel 4 reports he may have gotten it from one of the bats living in his house; he's in critical condition.
The Boston Public Health Commission reports a bat found on the sidewalk in front of 244 Clarendon St. yesterday afternoon has tested positive for rabies. Anybody who might have had direct contact with the bat should contact both the commission - at 617-534-5611 - and a doctor.
The commission says Animal Control officers responded to multiple calls from the neighborhood - and that it has two possible reports of somebody being bitten by the bat.
Around 3:45 p.m. today, the Animal Rescue League of Boston tweeted:
A call for a bat swimming in a toliet in Beacon Hill came in...ARL en route.
Less than ten minutes later we learned the bat was successfully rescued.
The Outraged Liberal takes swift action when a bat starts flapping around his house.
Karen Wise explains why her entire family is now getting rabies shots, not that she knows for a fact that the bat that was flying around in her house was rabid, since her husband let it fly out, when, as they now know, you're supposed to trap it somehow and let Animal Control test it for rabies.
Brookline, Newton report lots of bats in people's belfries, attics, apartments.
Hmm, if you had to chose: Bats or killer turkeys? Or snapping turtles?
Or why you should leave all the basement lights on all the time:
I went down to the basement today to get the laundry and opened the door into the basement and there was a thing that looked kind of like a chunk of lint or a sock hanging on the edge of the door. I grabbed it and it was warm and furry and surprising. I dropped it and jumped back. It was a bat. ...
It's the height of bat season in Roslindale and West Roxbury.
Meanwhile, Angela looks out her (non-Rozzie, non-Westie) window to see how baby squirrels are made (Caution: Not Safe for Oak Trees).
Jenny discovers it's true: If you have a sleeping bat in your pantry, you really can trap it with some Tupperware for release outside.
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