Goin' Batty!

A few days ago, while my daughters where attending to one of their chores of feeding the dogs, my youngest daughter Porsha, came running back into the house. "Momma, momma, Sadie found a bat!" I told her okay run and tell her sister not to touch it and I would be right there.

So I went outside glove on one hand and this is what was there.He/she was a tiny little thing. Granted i don't know a lot about bats, but judging by the looks of him, and the hair that was still on part of his wings I would say that he/she was a rather young bat.

We took him and turned him loose on one of the many many huge oak trees we have! He started climbing.....

and climbing.....

and climbing! Until he was about 30 feet on up in the tree where the wee little bat turned around and hung his self upside down and slept until dusk!

Here is something we did learn while doing research online trying to find out what kind of bat this little guy is.

Oklahoma has 22 species of insect eating bats. 2 of which are on the endangered species list! Although we still haven't figured out just which species he is!

So be kind to the next critter you find! You never know when you might be handling an endangered animal or your state Representative!

It was quite interesting to learn this about our state, and to learn that Oklahoma has name one of these bats as the state flying mammal!