An Adventure around every corner

Every night when we're outside in the pool at dusk something really neat happens. From somewhere close several bats fly out. It's really a fun thing to watch. From the pool looking toward the house the sky is really blue and there are few trees so you can really count all of the bats. Sometimes they come really close to the house or even close to our heads on occassion.

It's never bothered any of us because BATS eat Mosquitos. And in South Texas, Mosquitos are a HUGE problem. So as long as the bats are not roosting in my attic I'm cool with it.
That is until one morning when I went to clean the pool skimmer.

At first I thought it was a frog. But upon further inspection...IT's a BAT!

With visions of Rabies dancing in my head, I decided to ask David to scoop it out.

Not very pretty, but you couldn't help feel sorry for the little guy. No telling how long it struggled to stay alive in the water.

We laid him up on the roof to dry out and hopefully fly away. Then I remembered hearing that bats have to be hanging upside down to start flying. I'm not sure that is true but it couldn't hurt. So we hung him from a twig and the next morning he was gone.