We have a bat house in our backyard now! My mom and I finally convinced my dad to help build one (after I proved to them both that we do indeed have a bunch of Mexican freetails in our neighborhood that come out around nine o'clock to feed). It's three-chambered, and the plans that we looked off of say that it will be able to hold over a hundred bats!

I think that I might have them both interested in the winged creatures now, because my dad kept remarking about how he wished that the bat house would face toward our backyard (it's on a really high metal pole bracketed to the fence, and it has to face toward the southeast so that it catches the morning sun) so that he could see them come in and out, and my mom has started dragging me out of the house every day once it gets dark to go with her to see the bats feed.

The other night, we saw a pair of Freetails hunting side by side and swirling playfully around one another every once in a while. I assumed that they were either mother and child (Freetails give birth in June) or mates; one was a little bigger than the other, so it could have been either. So cute! I'm hoping that we'll have some boarders soon that I can take pictures of and upload here for everyone to see. We're also going to install a Bat-Cam in the roof of the house so that we can watch them close-up, so you might even get to see some really close shots.

Darn that stupid defective mood thing!


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