{"id":11295,"date":"2014-08-02T17:35:08","date_gmt":"2014-08-03T00:35:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=11295"},"modified":"2014-08-02T22:08:41","modified_gmt":"2014-08-03T05:08:41","slug":"dereks-bats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=11295","title":{"rendered":"Derek&#8217;s bats"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>In a recent posting, I told of an evening&#8217;s visit to the lakeshore with Derek Kite to watch <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=11220\">bats feast<\/a> on mayflies.<\/p>\n<p>Derek has persisted in his attempts to record bats feasting and his pictures have progressively improved as he became more familiar with their behaviour. I have combined his best shots of last evening into two composites.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Alas, we yet don&#8217;t know which bat species this is.<\/p>\n<p>This two-shot composite of a single bat fits his description of how &#8220;they go up about 6 feet, stall, drop and continue in the opposite direction, sometimes&#8230; [while eating] a mayfly.&#8221; The bat on the right is ascending towards the mayfly (the speck above it); a moment later this same bat is eating that mayfly as it descends on the left.<br \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-11316\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/bats140801bDK.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This\u00a0eight-shot\u00a0composite of various bats fits his description of hunting as they\u00a0&#8220;turn staying at the same level, 6&#8243; to 18&#8243; above the water.&#8221; The specks are mayflies.<br \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-11297\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/bats140801sDK.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><br \/><span style=\"font-size: 8pt;\">Derek Kite&#8217;s pictures are used with permission.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; In a recent posting, I told of an evening&#8217;s visit to the lakeshore with Derek Kite to watch bats feast on mayflies. Derek has persisted in his attempts to record bats feasting and his pictures have progressively improved as &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=11295\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11295","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mammals"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11295","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11295"}],"version-history":[{"count":24,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11295\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11323,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11295\/revisions\/11323"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11295"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11295"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}