Several months ago, I heard the panicky tones of “her-in-doors” calling my name from the bedroom. Guessing this wasn’t going to be my lucky day, I flung open the door to be confronted by something that looked like a baby pterodactyl flying around the pendant lamp and to be frank, it scared the crap out of me. Turns out it was a bat that had stupidly flow in through the open window; chasing dinner I suspect, and gotten stuck.
There’s a very blurry video of my second encounter with the creepy creature below (and they give me the willies).
Anyway, after escorting panicking female to safety (duvet over both of us as we crawled to safety), bat was captured and after a quick conversation with the “bat people”, (thank god for Yellow Pages), bat was released at dusk and flew off to tell tales of adventure and hardship to his (or her) chums.
Anyway, I’ve known for ages we have bats in the trees around here, so with a morning to kill, I decided to breadboard a simple bat detector. I’ll give it a whirl tonight and see what it can detect.
If anybody's interested, I'll post construction details.
There’s a very blurry video of my second encounter with the creepy creature below (and they give me the willies).
Anyway, after escorting panicking female to safety (duvet over both of us as we crawled to safety), bat was captured and after a quick conversation with the “bat people”, (thank god for Yellow Pages), bat was released at dusk and flew off to tell tales of adventure and hardship to his (or her) chums.
Anyway, I’ve known for ages we have bats in the trees around here, so with a morning to kill, I decided to breadboard a simple bat detector. I’ll give it a whirl tonight and see what it can detect.
If anybody's interested, I'll post construction details.
Theres a "manly" screem at one point when I thought it was going to try and do a vampire thing with me. Did I mention they really give me the willies.
Bat detecter on a breadboard
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