[admin]

That's too funny, I had a bat on my back porch once, and it freaked me out too.

Ceiling fans are good for downing foes of this sort.

[jim]

Originally Posted by VMF115

Pay me some money and I will remove the hex some one put on you.

I wonder if the problem is closer to home VMF,

If I come home one day to find a broomstick in the house I'm off !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[VMF115]

Originally Posted by jim

I wonder if the problem is closer to home VMF,

If I come home one day to find a broomstick in the house I'm off !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Are you saying your wife is a ......witch???

[TopHat]

Originally Posted by jim

Just between us guys, I am worried.

Thinking back, the last place Lorraine and me lived we had a plague of toads and newts!
Ok we did live next to a nature reserve famous for its Natterjack Toad colony, but I am seeing a pattern develop here.
First toads and newts, then a black cats moves in with us and now Bats!!!

You get my drift gentlemen???

Yeah, I get it. The next knock at your door may be ol' MoMo, overnight bag in hand.....

'Course, he's just there to gripe about those protected bats.

[jim]

Originally Posted by TopHat

Yeah, I get it. The next knock at your door may be ol' MoMo, overnight bag in hand.....

'Course, he's just there to gripe about protected bats.

Now that is scary,

I think the old boys away on his holidays otherwise he would be giving me a hard time on the should we build Carrier posts.

[Aircrafty]

Jim, your story reminded me of a close encounter I had with a bat several years ago.

It was late at night when I heard from my back-yard a loud high pitched squeal that sounded something similar to a three year old boy getting his nuts caught in a bike chain. I thought this can't be good, so I switched on the backyard spotlight and saw my Cattledog bitch (Meg) picking up a flying fox by the wing and tossing it across our yard making the bat emit another squeal. I told Meg that attempting to eat native animals wasn't the most pc thing to do. Then I ran after the bat which was flopping along the ground towards the side fence.

Now when you say your bat was big, I should say that Australian Flying Foxes are BIG, having a wing span of about FOUR feet. And they really do look like a fox with wings and have large eyes and a set of teeth that would make Dracula envious. They actually eat fruit, but they look like YOU could be their next meal

I wouldn't say I'm a chicken but then I'm not as stupid as Steve Irwin either, and I'm happy to leave most of our (often dangerous) native animals well alone. But this bat looked to be in trouble and our dog would surely kill it if I didn't rescue it somehow. So I tempted fate and picked the bat up by one wing and discovered it had a baby bat clinging to its fur. The bat, which are apparently intelligent creatures, may have sensed I was helping it and didn't put up a struggle and I put it in some low hanging branches where it climbed up out of harms way.

An Aussie Flying Fox: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grey-headed_Flying_Fox

[jim]

Hi Aircrafty,

My son has just returned from OZ he spent a year traveling and working down your way.
He sent me some spectactular photos of Ozzie fruit bats.

You are not kidding! Those things are huge!

I am awaiting a visit from him so he can sort out my computor probs.
If I can find the pictures I will put one of them on site for people to view.

I wouldnt want those in my backyard.

Then one I had in the house had about a 4" wingspan.

BTW I must say after viewing all my sons photos of Oz you certainly live on a beautiful......... "island" !!!

[mikeb1958]

Hey dilligafocau. What's that nasty black spider you have in the land down under? See alot of them? Packs a nasty bite with those large fangs. Didn't look like your "friendly neighborhood spider" either.

[Kubikali]

I once peeled a tiny bat from a picture frame in my school which was being renovated at the time, and it clung to my thumb for some time. Quite an experience... There was a lot of fuss about bats in those days as it was said they carried rabies. Nothing but a storm in a glass of water imo. There's really nothing wrong with me .

[dilligafocau]

Originally Posted by mikeb1958

Hey dilligafocau. What's that nasty black spider you have in the land down under? See alot of them? Packs a nasty bite with those large fangs. Didn't look like your "friendly neighborhood spider" either.

The Funnel Web Spider is probably the most dangerous spider we have here

www.abc.net.au/reslib/200703/r129695_427529.jpg

Ive only seen them in captivity & photos, they try to stay out of the way I guess. Im more worried by heart disease, cancer, car accidents & the wife discovering the true extent of my diecast spending etc