“I found something your boys will like . . Could I bring it over?”

It was the call from Susan at our new church. 

Yeah! , I thought, She’s coming over! How Fun.

                          Wonder what she has . . .wait. 

She said FOUND.  and WILL LIKE.  And she sounded sort of um like she was hiding something. 

Granted, they’ve been with her during service since December – but I had not had a lot of one on one time with her.  . . .

           What would she find that they would want?

                             Dread. Anxiety. Even a tiny morsel of fear crept up . . . .

While opening up the windows on a weekend rental – a little baby brown bat fell out.  He was dead – so they did what any normal person would do.

                 Stick it in a plastic container and bring it over to Petra School. 🙂

Which is handy – cause Barb has us studying

Bats this week on the Handbook of Nature Study.

The wings feel like crepe paper.  See how they are folded here?  They are easy to spread out  – around 9 inches wide – the feel is very thin vellum crepe paper like.

We watched the Youtube video Barb posted and read a few books from the library and a couple from our shelves.  We’ve had fun fishing in the evening – the bats swoop down to get the worm in the air. They like the sound of casting the bug out.

Today We Learned –

• Bats are not Blind. Look at that cutie eye up there. 🙂
• Bats eat 1,000 bugs per hour at night.
• Bats live 20-30 years – the oldest recorded being 34.
• Bats are the only flying mammals.
• They live between the bark and trunk on dead trees.
• They can be eaten by Giant Centipedes if they walk on the Cave Floor.

We talked about echolocation – We want to play a blind man’s bluff game tonight. If we get a group of friends over we will for sure. We talked about how their sonar works and that they can drop suddenly away from the prey of owls and hawks. We talked about the predators on the ground, if they were to scoot around – like snakes and giant centipedes.

We drew some pictures – and filled out the notebook page as a family.

Notebook Pages can be found at The Handbook of Nature Study Website.

OHC Summer Series #4:

Bats and the Sense of Hearing