Bats sleep in the daytime. Their drowsiness enables me to get close enough to take a picture whereas I have never managed a picture of one flying in the evening.
Bats make a wonderful countermeasure to any mosquitoes that will have resulted from the moist spring.
This sleepy bat is probably a male Little Brown Myotis.
These three loons are included for no better reason than that they swam by before sunrise.
He’s very cute, with his smushed up face. Was he dangling somewhere? Or lying flat?
Heather, he was horizontal—tucked into the corner between a tread and riser of some wooden stairs. Bats look for a convenient notch (such as under the loose bark of a snag) to spend the day.
How odd. I never knew that they didn’t dangle from something, but I guess safety and comfort is more important than the public’s ideas of how they should sleep.
What a beautiful photo. It is most likely a little brown bat (myotis). Bats usually dangle upside down but can go into other crevices also.