CAPITOL LAKE
The cafeteria of choice for thousands of Thurston County's bats
Bat walks for 2008:
 May 30  *  June 28  * July 26
Capitol Lake Documents & Links
Birds at Capitol Lake

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about the birds at Capitol Lake
Its quite a scene over the waters' surface on summer nights... thousands of Little Brown and Yuma bats foraging over the lake from May through September. Plus hundreds of Big Brown bats picking off the larger insects from about 10 to 50 feet above the water.


Go to Bats at Capitol Lake Page

 
Some of these bats have been observed (with radio-tracking methods) to spend  the entire nights (6+ hrs of flying) just feeding at this one location. 
 
A hefty critique of the 4 CLAMP-commissioned studies for an intertidal mudflat, from the CLAMP website Click on the image above to go to the videos, photos and discussion of these bats...
Documents from CLAMP website MAP of bat watching locations
Eurasian watermilfoil : does salt water really eradicate it?  http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/pacificnw/2002/1013/cover.html
Oly council's triclopyr discussion - May 4, 2004 work session  CLAMP committee's Herrera Consulting report on animals expected at Capitol Lake, Sept. 2004
or What?! There are bats at Capitol Lake?? Table 7, on page  25 of the report is... pathetic.

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Bat Conservation Int'l report on bat kills at wind farms:http://www.vawind.org/Assets/Docs/Battered.pdf