Raccoon. They are pesky mammals even though they might look cute. Rummaging through garbage cans is their specialty. They can carry disease. Rabies. Raccoons are immortalized in cartoons and song.
My grandson Jack sent me this photo he took Saturday night. Raccoon in a tree
I thought of two raccoons in my house. A painted rock and a stuffed animal one.
Beatles song https://youtu.be/qqA4ZiQaGtU?si=Dim0eSWL6L1xUVkc
And click if you want to see how many fictional raccoons you can identify
My hosts drove us to the University of Florida Bat Houses to wait for the bats to fly out at dusk. WOW! They were something to see. Hard to focus as it was getting dark and they were flitting and flying.
And then as we stood there, a strong aroma filled the air. P- ewwww!
We watched the murmuration of bats in the sky. Thousands and thousands of bats. Creating dark clouds of undulating patterns. Off to eat insects until dawn.
People waiting to see the bats emerge at dusk.
The Bat Houses at the University of Florida
Bats from the Bathouses at the University of Florida.
Joanne filmed the bats on my phone
A nice lady took our photo in front of the Bat Houses.
We talked about expressions with BAT(not baseball) in them
Like a Bat out of Hell
Blind as a Bat
Gone Batty
Batsh*t Crazy
Don’t Bat an Eye
Bats in the Belfry
from the Free Dictionary- “have bats in the belfry (old-fashioned)
