Betsy, I'd love to see your picture. Also, there are both tree and cave bats it NY. Typically the tree bats are here in summer and migrate. Cave bats are the ones we find in our attics this time of year. Attics make great pseudo caves! There are multiple species of each. I recently wrote a blog entry on them, if interested!
http://blog.timesunion.com/nywildlife/readers-write-in-bats-of-ny/1762/ ----- Reply message ----- From: "Elizabeth B. King" <ebk...@twcny.rr.com> To: "Betsy Darlington" <darlingtonb...@gmail.com>, <cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu> Subject: [cayugabirds-l] Bats! Date: Thu, Dec 5, 2013 5:24 PM I'd be interested in the answers you get. We have had bats hibernating in our garage for years. We've sealed up every possible entry space but they still get in. They live in our bat house in the summer but they prefer the warm garage in the winter. We had a beautiful orange (!) bat on a deck railing last month. I can send a picture if anyone can identify it for me. Thanks, Elizabeth King At 05:00 PM 12/5/2013, Betsy Darlington wrote: Does anyone know of a bat expert in Ithaca - perhaps at Cornell or IC? We had two bats show up in our house last night, a little after midnight! We have no idea how they got in, and we were unable to catch them in our bat net and release them, so they no doubt will show up again. They didn't fly around much, unlike the ones that get in during the summer. Does anyone know if they hibernate in people's attics in Ithaca or should they be off in a cave somewhere? Thanks! Betsy -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: Welcome and Basics Rules and Information Subscribe, Configuration and Leave Archives: The Mail Archive Surfbirds BirdingOnThe.Net Please submit your observations to eBird! -- -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: Welcome and Basics Rules and Information Subscribe, Configuration and Leave Archives: The Mail Archive Surfbirds BirdingOnThe.Net Please submit your observations to eBird! -- -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds 3) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
