Day 274

Tonight we went to a BBQ at my friend Katie's house.  The weather was less than cooperative, but we made up for it with some bat excitement.  She has two boston terriers that are pretty rambunctious.  We went outside to play with them and Otis had pinned a bat down on the ground.  Katie was pretty freaked out and the boys were super excited to save the bat and check it out.

It kept making a super high pitched hissing noise and clicking sounds.  Rick said the clicking was it's sonar.  I think the noises scared the dogs because they backed off as soon as we got out there.  I'm sure they thought they were catching their usual fare of chipmunk and were a little freaked out when it started making weird noises.

The bat was so rigid and didn't move at all, so we put it in a bush in the front yard away from the dogs.  About 20 minutes later we were showing it to some late arrivals and about 30 seconds after we moved away it flew out of the bush and away.  Good thing we weren't leaning over it right then.  yikes!