A belated HFF everyone! I MUST BE BATS!!

A beautiful end to your day Andy, I used to get them around the house but I have not seen them for several years, if they move into your attic here it's illegal to do anything to disturb them

Well, here they are more than welcome, Peter! They are small enough to be termed cute by those suscptible to cuteness and I, for one, haven't had a single mosquito bite this year!

...we can't see the bats, but we can watch very well the nightfall...

Well, I see them every evening! I appreciate their presence. There are at least hundreds of bats in the evening but do you think I can catch one?
No, they fly too quickly!

...their flight sensors are very accurate... :)

Thank you for posting. Where I live, bats eat mosquitos, so they are my friends. Many roost under a highway bridge where I go jogging, also under the bridge, with them above me. So far, no guano has hit me.

Thanks Tony,
Yes to all you say re mosquitos!

Excellente !!! HFF Andy

Many thanks Boro!

Rather lovely little creatures; a bunch of them used to circle the farmhouse every evening in Cumbria, where I lived at the time. The batman was called out, but we never did find out where they lived..

Possibly in a disused mine shaft? In Cornwall, that's where most bats hang out and the council took to covering old mine shafts with grills (rather than cement plugs) that allowed bats to fly in and out but kept them safe from people, dogs and cows, etc! See here: www.ipernity.com/doc/2247598/50547920/in/album/1036936
Thank you, Tractacus!

a belartd HFF - keep healthy

Well, I was very late with my HFF shot, Reinhard! Thank you!

No veo a los murciélagos, pero no importa, lo bello es el cielo. Buen fin de semana, sin mosquitos. :-))

There's one just above the horizon about 1/3 in from the right.
Thank you, Marije!

Great Andy...

Many thanks, Udo!

Superbe cliché !
Bon weekend. Amitiés

Thank you, Madeleine!

HFF Andy ~ I like the soft colours of the evening ~ & welcome the bats

Many thanks, Nick!

magnifique Andy **************passez un bon we mon ami

Thank you, @ngélique!

Beautifully coloured sky.
Belated hFF

Excellent pair! HFF! Stay well!

Admired in: www.ipernity.com/group/tolerance

A belated hFF to you too, have a good weekend!
Ah yes, bats... They not only move too fast but they fly lots of zigzags;-) We have quite a few bats in town, they live in the church tower and about this time of the year the young sometimes don't find their way back home but end up in people's homes. When you have a whole swarm of them buzzing round you have to call the fire brigade;-)

At first I tried a 15 second video and that didn't work either. Gudrun!

They are just too fast for us;-))

Ein schönes Wochenede!!!

Sehr schön ist dieser rötliche Farbton am Himmel lieber Andy,sehr schön ist deine Stimmungsaufnahme :))

Wünsche noch ein schönes Wochenende,ganz liebe Grüße Güni :))

Je ne vois pas la chauve-souris mais c'est un beau coucher!...

needed your hint, didn't see the bats at first glance. But i can imagine who impressive this is in the evening
HFF!

Don't despair Andy.............getting decent shots of bats in flight is almost impossible without specialist equipment and/or a lot of practice.

I occasionally see the odd bat near my house, but I have no idea where they come from or go to.

Anyway..........even without the bats (except for the one you pointed out to Marije) this is a splendid image. I love the light and the colours in the sky. Beautifully captured.

Many thanks, Keith!
Re; photographing bats in flight - as you say and as I discovered - nigh on impossible! Anyway I'm always pleased too see them as I do a few laps of the terraces and front and back garden at that time of day to complete my day's steps target.

They are doing a great job then Andy! I see just one bat, but my eye was taken by the beautiful sky!

You see one more bat than many others, Rosa. Well seen! Yes, I welcome them for their mosquito appetites!
Many thanks!

Jaap,
Betty,
William,
Walter,
Güni,
Pierre,
Farb,
Thank you all!

Belated HFF, Andy ! Have a very nice Sunday !

Many thanks, Ulrich!

An excellent and atmospheric photo, Andy. Love the colours in the sky. Liking the title :-)
A belated HFF from me and wishing you a very good Sunday.

What a brilliant photo, Andy. I just love sunsets and to have that view, wow. I have a couple of pipistrelle families which tend to fly around at dusk - but as you say - they fly so quickly, I'm just aware of a speedy movement out of the corner of my eye. I hope you enjoy the rest of the weekend and that next week will be cooler for you.

Oh, there it is! It took me a while, but I found the bat. It is really a very beautiful sunset photo, Andy.

A very belated HFF for this beautiful image, Andy. Found the bat. :-)

Roger,
Jenny,
Ronald,
Edna,
George,
Many thanks to you all!

A beautiful shot Andy. I love watching them swooping around, but they are fast and you did well to capture any at all. Where my daughter lives there was an old barn and the bats would come out at night. She would stand on her doorstep and they would swoop so low they would almost touch her.

Thank you, Carol!
I tried a 15 second video of them at first but my mobile phone took three days to attempt to download it via WiFi!!! I'm doing soimething wrong, obviously!

Belated congratulations, Andy, for a very pretty sunset adorned with those ever-welcome insectivores!
Have a great week ahead

Yes, they are very grood friends in the summer months!!! Many thanks, Eric!

fantastic

Thank you, "seise"!

Superbes photo et vue . Nicole .

Thank you, Nicole!

I found the bat. :) Around my balcony I have also a few of them every day since spring if the weather is warm enough.
The view from your house to the valley and at least to the mountains is so wonderful, Andy!

Thank you, Angelika!
Yes, I had to move here from my flat as
1. teaching work dried up with Covid, and I could no longer pay my central Madrid rent..
2. I suddenly couldn't walk as my spine started to disentegrate from many years of steroid treatment for my leukaemia and I could no longer walk to classes, the bus stop, the metro station, etc. I had a serious back operation which is still needing physiotherapy to put right completely.
3. Luckily, my sister has a large house 40km north of Madrid with plenty of space!
My girlfriend has a full flat with lodgers and a 'no boyriend staying at night' rule, which is necessary, so I only had the one option.
4.Then, I got Covid in a big way last year and spent 5 months in hospital (2 of them in an induced coma which wasted my leg muscles completely away)! I have only now learned how to walk again and speak again (it also affected my vocal cords!). So I am receiving long term invalidity benefit, partly from the UK and partly from Spain.
Apart from that, all is well (although my sister currently has Covid and I really don't want it again as I have no immune system to speak of and was told that it could be equally serious if I catch it again! So I'm self-isolating even more so than usual!)
But yes the view is lovely, and I have already posted more than a few on ipernity in recent months!
Hope all s well with you!
Best wishes,
Andy

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