Category: Bats
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Goats, Bat in the Bat House, Blueberries
Below: Fool, Butter and kid, and Einstein and kid are comfortable in their new pen. Below: Padme and her three sons are adjusting well. One of the triplets has found a new route to the trough. Below: After three years, the bat house has its first tenant. We clean the mud daubers out of the…
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Mushrooms, Moths, Butterflies, Watermelon, Zinnias, and Bats
Scientific Tip: Just because it grows in your garden, doesn’t mean it is eatable! Below is a mushroom that was growing under the blackberries in the garden. The mushrooms below are in the family of Argaricaceae (gilled mushrooms). This family has many edible and deadly poisonous mushrooms. NEVER eat or touch a wild mushroom unless…
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Watermelon, Tsunami, Night Vision, Caterpillars, and Family
Our second watermelon patch has fruit! This watermelon is a different variety than the melons we harvested in August. The melon will have to get a little larger for us to determine the variety. Guess who looks fine today? Tsunami is no longer limping. BELOW: Night Vision binocular pictures of 1. Two deer in the…
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Bats, Rust and Solutions, Zinnia thinning and transplant
I finally learned to combine the videos on Mexican Free-tail bats. Bats are the fastest animals on earth (up to 99 mph). Bats have the amazing ability to turn on a dime in mid flight. The average bat flys 375 miles per night while searching for food. There are more than 900 species of bats…
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Bats, Goats, Thermal Imaging, Cypress vine flowers, and Butterflies
There was an Absolutely beautiful sunset on August 2nd! The five videos below are very short clips of the bats flying around the lake at the farm. The bats are small and move very quickly, so they are difficult to film. The bats that visit the farm are Mexican Free-Tailed bats. This bat is a…
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Goats, Fishing, Flowers, Pumpkin pollination, and Bats
Fool seems to like wearing the Pit Vipers (sunglasses). The last slide is Quinn holding Camo (Ghost). Camo is still not crazy about being held. Bass fishing in Florida- all catch and release- Things got better as the trip progressed! Flip through the pictures below. The last one is 4.8 pounds. Flip through the pictures…
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It’s a Bird, It’s a Plane, and NO it is not Superman! It is a Bat
The Mexican free-tailed bat (also called Brazilian free-tailed bat) is one of the fastest mammals with a horizontal flying speed up to 99mph. It also flies quite high and has been seen at altitudes of over 10,000 feet. It is a medium size bat and although native to America, it usually migrates South for the…