I was cleaning the scope last night when

[Ukastronomer]

This wonderful, beautiful fluff ball came in through the bathroom window

I KNOW you are not supposed to handle without gloves but I just HAD to pick it up and remove the net curtain from the window and place it on the sill to be able to get back out, only 3-4", isn't some of nature wonderful

I love being autistic, I believe it has made me truly love all animals in a way many don't or can not

[Tinderboxsky]

And their fur is so silky and soft. Lovely little
creatures.

[Ukastronomer]

I was so afraid of hurting it,

[multiweb]

looks like a batmanov mask to me. :question:

[Ukastronomer]

OMG there is always ONE...................... :)

[multiweb]

One of many. :evil:

[LewisM]

But Marc is a “Case Especial”

[FlashDrive]

:lol:

[multiweb]

Only greener.

[mynameiscd]

Hi Jeremy,
What a beautiful experience getting a visit from bat.
I come across these cute little creatures quite often with my work as a stone mason tucked up in little cavities in walls.
Sometimes im forced to move sleeping bats to walls im not working on and they seem to be ok.
At my bush block ive had many visits by kangaroos when I'm at my telescope. A bit scarry when youre in the middle of nowhere in complete darkness and you start hearing noises from the dark.
Once i turned on my torch to be faced by a very large male roo snorting at me about 15 feet away. He was over 6 feet tall and not happy. I sort of hid behind my scope and a bit of standoff and then he hopped away.
I probably scared him just as much as I was.
Cheers
Andy

[Ukastronomer]

:) :) :)

[leon]

You guys have to be kidding, go to Yeppoon in QLD and see the stinking filthy creatures hanging from ever tree in the mangroves, gas the lot i reckon.

Leon

[mental4astro]

We can hear the constant clicking of microbats at our dark site at Kaboomba Airfield, and occassionally we have them flitting around us - we attract the mozzies, the mozzies attract the bats, and we have a jolly mozzie-less time :)

I had one cut through between me and the eyepiece one night. Saw a darting shadow inches from my face, even felt the puff of wind from its wings on my face. Scared the heebie jeebies out of me! :eyepop: :scared: :party2: :lol:

[Ukastronomer]

Is there an ignore button here that can stop posts like this

Keep those comments to yourself

They were on this planet long before you

[Ukastronomer]

:) :) :)

[mental4astro]

Jeremy,

Leon is talking about the huge Flying Fox bats we have! Their wingspan can reach 1.5m! And when they crap, you REALLY don't want to be under it! :lol:

I get flocks of hundreds fly over my house every night, dozens of which raid the giant Morton Bay Fig trees across the road from my place :D

I used to have a big mandarin tree in my backyard. One night I stepped out into the backyard for a stretch when one of these HUGE bats lept out of the mandi tree with its huge wings going "WOOP, WOOP, WOOP!!!" Heck, my backbone jellified instantly!!! :lol: :lol:

PS, added a photo of a lady holding a flying fox to give you an idea of just how big these beasties can get! A bit bigger than the little tacker you found, I'm sure :)

[Ukastronomer]

I know, sorry but people have to remember there are people like me who prefer animals to humans, in my opinion this planet would be better off without humans and the wildlife we murder certainly would

Yes I appreciate there are problem with many animals the world over, perhaps if we had not destroyed so much of their habitat ?

sorry, my opinion

[mynameiscd]

Exactly Jeremy,
Humans have and will continue to destroy native habitat so the whole balance is out of whack and some species will go into extinction while others will dominate and then become a "problem" to us humans.
We have made a perfect environment for fruit bats with so much abundant food around in peoples back yards close to their homes and no real preditors other than us that theyre in plague proportion in some areas.
But as natural selection goes that during over population of species disease and viruses will eventually control the population and when nearly finished getting the numbers down it may jump species to us as shown in history so eventually it will come back and bite us.
Cheers
Andy

[leon]

Why should I have to agree with everything others say Jeremy, you obviously don't like humans, and say what you like, your choice I guess,
I just hate bats. (Ignore button indeed) Wow a bit strong don't you reckon.

Leon

[Ukastronomer]

I want to apologize to Leon for my attitude, we have spoken in PM, he is a really nice chap and I MUST NOT judge people too fast.

Please accept my apologies Leon

[Ukastronomer]

What we don't realize is that the only species that is destroying this planet is human

It is a laugh, we are already now complaining that as amature astronomers light pollution is getting so bad we can not do astronomy, and billboard in space will be a problem, yet no one considers light pollution on wildlife, and how many wales are killed every year most likely due to SOUND pollution in the oceans. We have no right to be her if all we do is destroy

https://uk.whales.org/our-4-goals/create-healthy-seas/pollution/

All it is with humans is us, us us



.

[mynameiscd]

Hi Jeremy,
A few years ago some sperm whales washed up close to where i used to live.
https://www.adelaidenow.com.au/news/south-australia/whales-beached-on-yorke-peninsula-south-of-ardrossan/news-story/3da54d48a3b6b458108df9e916a628db
The papers said they were probably chasing fish and got caught up in the shalows. Sperm whales are deep sea preditors and dont come in the gulf that they came up so they're wrong there.
I was speaking to a guy who was working on a oil exploration ship doing sonar and deep sea explosive devices about 100km away a week earlier.
May only been coincidence but i bet one of the whales had it ears and sonar blown out and got totally lost and the others followed.
It must be so hard for these animals to "listen" to the oceans with all these noisy boats around and us humans dumping plasic as we go.
Cheers
Andy

[Ukastronomer]

I apologize if I get carried away, but I really wish third world countries would do more, and America

[mynameiscd]

Last year i had this little magpie follow me around all day at work waiting for me to roll over stones to get worrms.
After a while i there were more trades on the job and scared it away.
"Dave" now lives in the trees by the main gate on the property and every now and then sees my car and comes for a vist.
Cheers
Andy

[Ukastronomer]

People often hate magpies as they kill much such as baby birds and squirrels, this also upsets me to think of but it is their way to love and they only do it to live, I think they are beautiful looking birds

They love cat/dog food

[mynameiscd]

I like the magpies hanging around.
A few of the other trades scare them away snd i ask them why and they can't answer me.
Anyway heres a few more of Dave.
Cheers
Andy

[raymo]

The Dave in your later images appears to have only one leg, are maggies
known to tuck up one leg?
raymo

[mynameiscd]

Hi Raymo,
Dave did tuck his leg up all the time the same way seagulls do.
I don't know why they do it but he just looked straight into my eyes and tucked his leg up. Id feel sorry for him and jump off the scaffold and start rolling stones over and expose worms.
Good trick anyway.
Saw him this morning at the main gate for a bit of sliced ham.
Still takes it out of my hand and then flies back to the trees.
Got a funny feeling Dave might be a Davette.
Cheers
Andy