Bats of the Sutter Buttes

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Earlier this month I went up to the Sutter Buttes for a 'bat research outing' organized by the Middle Mountain Foundation. Bat research in this case consisted of setting up nets over a muddy puddle to catch the bats as they were out hunting. The captured bats were weighed and measured and then released, sometimes with tiny glow-sticks glued to their tummies so we could watch where they flew.

The bats:

California myotis (the ring of white fur on the second bat is not usual, nobody was quite sure what it was).

Hoary bat

Pallid bat

Red bat (I didn't get any good photos of the red bat this time, so this photo is from the last time I did this, in 2009)

Random photo of some trees looking pretty in the evening light

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