Last night on our way home from performing in a play, my housemates and I noticed this sleepy little red bat on a city windowsill.
Today we came back to the theater to perform the Sunday matinee and she was on the ground. :(
I scooped her up in a shirt and put her back on the windowsill (never touch a bat with your bare hands). She was still there after the show so now we are taking her to the wildlife rehabber.
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Fritters the Eastern Red Bat, via
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Today's Bat: Eastern Red Bat
Today we'll be rating the Eastern Red Bat, my personal favorite bat species! You can find this ruddy fluffball across the eastern half of North America, roosting in trees and leaf litter or migrating along the Atlantic coast.
Environmental Impact: These guys eat moths, and love feeding early in the evening around clearings. If you've got a suburban garden, the Eastern Red Bat might be helping keep your plants safe from common pest species!
🦇🦇🦇/5
Beauty: I'm captivated by their beautiful red coats, black wings, and white shoulder spots. They're also known to use their tail membranes like a blanket, which is cute as hell.
🦇🦇🦇🦇🦇/5
Power: They can survive freezing temperatures thanks to their fluffy bodies and hibernation patterns. If I was a moth, I'd be quaking in my boots.
🦇🦇🦇/5
Overall: Owner of my heart forever, I will keep my eyes peeled for them in the summer skies.
🦇🦇🦇🦇🦇/5
(Today's sources: Bat Conservation International, Wikipedia)
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Eastern Red Bat (Lasiurus borealis)
Unlike most species that average one pup a litter, Eastern red bats average three pups a litter.
image description: a red bat hanging upside down from heavy white fabric with three fuzzy red grey pups cuddled to her chest
image source: Josh Henderson via wikipedia
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Eastern red bats are North America's most abundant 'tree bats'. They are found wherever there are trees east of the Rocky Mountains from Canada to as far south as central Florida. Eastern red bats roost right out in the foliage of deciduous or sometimes evergreen trees.
(Photo: J. Scott Altenbach, Bat Conservation International)
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Source: @pabatrescue
"If you're wondering how our eastern red floof Fritters is doing, he's just fine with the best hair day ever 😂
This sweet boy is excited for warmer days. He is so anxious to fly."
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For the evil art challenge I propose no crosshatching for you!
Or if you’re feeling extra spicy no outlines
Thank you!
No outlines AND no crosshatching! Mostly. Listen, the frosted tips are load bearing when drawing eastern red bats fksvkdbdksbs
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eastern red baaattsss I love yoooouuu... bleh
Image description: a full color illustration of an adorable eastern red bat wanting to know if they can have seconds
Image source: Illustration by Brittney Fernald, via the Virginia Department of Wildlife Resources
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