Bats

I went for a walk and saw this tree full of bats

[moni kozi]

whoa! those are bats???? soooo interesting! thanks for sharing!

[Diana]

Goodness me, what a sight! Fabulous find and shot. It would be interesting to see them when they leave the tree ;-)

[Kathy A]

@monikozi I wasn’t sure until I saw some of them flying around. Thank you for the fav too

[Kathy A]

@ludwigsdiana there were three trees, all full of them and some were flying off but I was so busy watching them that I didn’t take a photo. Thank you for the fav too

[Babs]

Oh wow they will seriously multiply now. Whenever we go to Raymond Terrace there are hundreds of bats in the trees there close to McDonalds and to be honest the smell of McDonalds burgers and bat poo it is overpowering. ha ha

[Sylvia du Toit]

Wow.

[Pam Knowler]

OMG what a fantastic sight! They are big bats!

[Shepherdman's Wife]

How fascinating!

[Kathy A]

@pamknowler are they? I don’t know much about bats. Thank you for the fav

[Mags]

Wow! I read that bats eat more mosquitos each night than we can imagine.

[Amanda R.]

Wow! What a sight! Very cool!

[Mickey Anderson]

The # 1 pollinators! Beautiful!!

[summerfield]

holy macaroni, i thought they were fruits or something. nice find. aces!

[Fisher Family]

Now that is quite a collection of bats - well spotted!

Ian

[Jennie B.]

Yikes!!!! Those are some large bats!!! I have never seen a tree full of bats before. Don’t want to ever see that in person either, 😧

[Santina]

wow, what a fantastic capture I had never seen such a thing

[Kathy A]

@marlboromaam @brillomick thank you for the favs

[Kathy A]

@jb030958 it was quite spectacular watching them all flying around then flying back to one of the trees, wish I’d got a photo of that instead of just watching them 🤪

[Carole Sandford]

Fascinating sight!

[Cazzi]

Oh wow! What a fantastic sight. They're really quite big too.

[Kathy]

I didn't know they did that. Very interesting.

[KazzaMazoo]

I know they are most likely fruit bats, but there is something about bats that just give me the heebie jeebies. Nice find though!

[Taffy]

OMG -- those are a lot of bats to see in a single tree!

[Kathy A]

@randystreat thank you for the fav Kathy

[aikiuser (jenn)]

OMG, that is So. COOL!!

[Mallory]

Oh wow! Good eye!

[Ann H. LeFevre]

Wow- I would want to take pictures and be unnerved by that many at the same time. The only time I've seen bats this large was at Disney World in their Asian park. I distinctly remember the pandas, the tigers, and the HUGE bats sucking away on some of the fruit on the trees (I think it was there for them to eat).

[Kathy A]

@olivetreeann I think I might have to go back and take more photos

[Boxplayer]

omg - how amazing - I'd so love to see bats like this. We see them flying around at night obviously sometimes but not like this.

[Casablanca]

That is a fantastic sight! Totally love bats.

[Kathy A]

@boxplayer @casablanca thank you for the favs ladies

[Louise]

Wow, how fantastic! I thought it was just a nice green photo until I read the comment!