Something in the Air

So it was the middle of the afternoon and I noticed there were Common Nighthawks flying over. I ran and got the big cam and had great fun photographing them as they sailed overhead. One of them was flying rather erratically and when I locked onto it, not a Nighthawk at all, or at least a different kind of nighthawk out on a daytime jaunt.

I've never thought much about our bats before, but now I know we have 8 kinds, not all of them common. This on was quite large, possibly it's a Big Brown Bat, but that is little more than a guess (it's big and brown, and Big Brown Bats are common). Bats do sometimes fly by day, and perhaps what ever was attracting the Nighthawks was attracting the bat?

Polk County, Wiscosnin