Explore some of the Bat activities of the South Puget Sound area
Green Power? Read this Bat Conservation Int'l report on bat kills at wind farms: http://www.vawind.org/Assets/Docs/Battered.pdf
This Little brown bat was radio-tagged at the large Woodard Bay colony. Right away this bat flew 8 1/2 miles to Capitol Lake and spent the night feeding there. The miniature radio-tag weighs only about 1/3 of a gram (yes, that's 1/80 of an ounce) is gently glued to her fur using a medical adhesive. I can hear it up to a couple of miles away on my special radio receivers, but when they are skimming the surface of the water feeding on mosquitos and caddis flies sometime the range is only several hundred yards.

Capitol Lake video
August 2003



Poster presentation of the 2003-2004 Myotis bat 
commutes to Capitol Lake (2.4 mb pdf)

More Photos of Bats in Wash. & Oregon

LINKS to Bat Detectors and other Bat Sites



Our own BAT RADAR images showing 
foraging bats at Capitol Lake, Olympia, WA
 The "why do we need them?"  link
The Olympian article, July 2005
 "Living with Wildlife"  (WDFW)
October 2002 Seattle Times article
(about the Woodard Bay colony)
Washington State law protects bats
Green Power: Bats & wind power articles

"So many bats... so little time."

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