Saturday 19th February, 19:10pm
A Red Letter Day!
I've just seen the first bat (chauvre-souris) of the year flying across the field. It looked bigger than the tiny pipestrelle bats that were nightly visitors last year and would fly inches above our heads but, as always, bat identification as they zoom past in the near darkness is (for me) almost impossible. The bat detector is buried somewhere in the house so I'll look that out soon. There's no evidence of a bat roost in our buildings but bats hibernate in different places to where they roost and our barn walls would be a perfect hibernation location but we have preferred to leave them in peace and haven't mounted a search for them. I must remember to talk to Christophe Palou, the architecte, about them when we meet to discuss the build programme for the barn and see how to work without disturbing them.
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