Feb 8th

Your link to the description of the Silver-haired Bat is right on, regarding my encounter all those years ago. I had turned my head to say something to the guy to my left, when I saw the movement coming from behind us. It flew in between us, and then powered itself forward away from us. I looked at it from slightly above, as it zoomed away. It may be that it is instinctively attracted to large mammals, e.g. deer, that might have flies, etc. hovering around their warm bodies? I noticed several days ago, with rare sunny weather, that "march Flies" are already out and about. They would makes tasty snacks for cool weather bats, I should think.

Phil Hotlen
Bellingham, WA
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----- Original Message -----
From: pzfree-nature at yahoo.com
To: tweeters at u.washington.edu
Sent: Monday, February 8, 2010 5:33:50 AM GMT -08:00 US/Canada Pacific
Subject: [Tweeters] Local Bat Species - Puget Sound Region




Tweets,

I recognize that Bats are not birds but I thought that the recent discussion on bats was interesting. Bats are mammals, of course.

Per my research, here are the bats that are local to the Puget Sound Region. I am interested in learning more.


California Myotis Myotis californicus Vespertilionidae Vespertilionid Bats California Myotis
Yuma Myotis Myotis yumanensis Vespertilionidae Vespertilionid Bats Yuma Myotis
Little Brown Bat Myotis lucifugus Vespertilionidae Vespertilionid Bats Little Brown Bat
Long-legged Myotis Myotis volans Vespertilionidae Vespertilionid Bats Long-legged Myotis
Long-eared Myotis Myotis evotis Vespertilionidae Vespertilionid Bats Long-eared Myotis
Silver-haired Bat Lasionycteris noctivagans Vespertilionidae Vespertilionid Bats Silver-haired Bat
Western Pipistrelle Pipistrellus hesperus Vespertilionidae Vespertilionid Bats Western Pipistrelle
Big Brown Bat Eptesicus fuscus Vespertilionidae Vespertilionid Bats Big Brown Bat
Hoary Bat Lasiurus cinereus Vespertilionidae Vespertilionid Bats Hoary Bat
Townsend's Big-eared Bat Corynorhinus townsendii (Plecotus townsendii) Vespertilionidae Vespertilionid Bats Townsend's Big-eared Bat


The link to the far right should be a hyperlink to eNature where you can see a picture and read a description of each one. There is a bat crisis going on out on the east coast right now where the bat populations are crashing. Frogs, honeybees and now bats...

Thanks -

Paul Zoba
Woodinville
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