{"id":2084,"date":"2012-04-03T15:17:10","date_gmt":"2012-04-03T19:17:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pfeiffernaturecenter.org\/nature-blog\/?p=2084"},"modified":"2012-04-03T15:17:10","modified_gmt":"2012-04-03T19:17:10","slug":"april-bats-bring-may","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pfeiffernaturecenter.org\/nature-blog\/2012\/04\/april-bats-bring-may\/","title":{"rendered":"April bats bring May&#8230;.?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/pfeiffernaturecenter.org\/nature-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/little-brown-bat.jpg\" alt=\"little brown bat\" title=\"little-brown bat\" width=\"250\" height=\"188\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-2086\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pfeiffernaturecenter.org\/nature-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/little-brown-bat.jpg 250w, https:\/\/pfeiffernaturecenter.org\/nature-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/little-brown-bat-150x112.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\" \/>Bats can squeeze in the tiniest openings. As a result, it&#8217;s not uncommon for me to get a bat in my house on occasion. At least it wasn&#8217;t for many years, before <a href=\"http:\/\/pfeiffernaturecenter.org\/nature-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/winter-2010-jan-feb-mar-color.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">white nose syndrome<\/a> became a problem in our region.<\/p>\n<p>My memory certainly isn&#8217;t the best, but in my mind, a bat in my house was a summertime happening. So I was quite surprised when I was visited by one last night, on April 2.<\/p>\n<p>I tried my usual non-aggressive ploy: open both my doors and turn on every light in the house. This usually works because the bat doesn&#8217;t really want to be in my house any more than I want him there, and he really doesn&#8217;t like all those lights. So he uses his sonar to find those open doors and gets out quickly &amp; easily, completely unharmed.<\/p>\n<p>It worked like a charm last night. I was glad it didn&#8217;t take long, because at that point the outside temperature was about 45<sup>o<\/sup>, and I didn\u2019t want those doors to stay open for long.<\/p>\n<p>Once the bat was outside, I began to worry a bit.  Did we really have enough bugs already for him to eat?  Sure, we had a March that set all kinds of records for high temps, but I haven&#8217;t seen that many bugs yet.  <\/p>\n<p>When I realized that the phoebe in my yard has found plenty to catch on the wing my mind settled down a it.  But then again, phoebes aren&#8217;t struggling for survival the way bats are.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What do you think &#8211; will that bat be okay?<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bats can squeeze in the tiniest openings. As a result, it&#8217;s not uncommon for me to get a bat in my house on occasion. At least it wasn&#8217;t for many years, before white nose syndrome became a problem in our region. My memory certainly&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,60],"tags":[171,172],"class_list":["post-2084","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-animals","category-bugs-insects","tag-bats","tag-white-nose-syndrome"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pfeiffernaturecenter.org\/nature-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2084","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pfeiffernaturecenter.org\/nature-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pfeiffernaturecenter.org\/nature-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pfeiffernaturecenter.org\/nature-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pfeiffernaturecenter.org\/nature-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2084"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/pfeiffernaturecenter.org\/nature-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2084\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2090,"href":"https:\/\/pfeiffernaturecenter.org\/nature-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2084\/revisions\/2090"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pfeiffernaturecenter.org\/nature-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2084"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pfeiffernaturecenter.org\/nature-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2084"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pfeiffernaturecenter.org\/nature-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2084"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}