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Old 03-28-2008, 07:09 AM   #10
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An old-timer up here told me that in the 1950s the sky at dusk around the lake use to be black with bats.....hundreds & hundreds of thousands of them. Now of course you see no such thing....and that's not good. We need them to eat up those bugs
That is still the case at my house in Bow. Maybe not thousands, but there are dozens of bats in my yard each night, flying around snacking on the 'skeeters. They fly in and out of the pine trees. Toss a rock up in the air, and watch them come divebombing in!
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