Seen Over Your House Today

[Captain Canada]

Had to go to London, ON today to get some work done on our logging truck. Treated to this RCAF C-17 doing touch and goes.

[kerick]

Over at my mom's house I was out in my dad's shop searching through the plywood stock for a project I'm working on. The sheets of plywood are stored upright in a rack and have been there a long time. As I pulled a couple of sheets apart I saw something small, dark and moving. It turns out a couple of bats had moved in. Not over my house, and not flying at the moment, but could be if it ever warms up. A bit startling. I didn't tell my mom. She's 95 and it would probably freak her out.

[perttime]

It has been years since I last saw bats in flight. Probably hunting mosquitoes. We were sitting on a porch and there were quite enough mosquitoes.

[NARSES2]

Sometimes see bats during summer evenings. They live in the wood next door, although their numbers have dwindled. They are tiny, but I've seen huge ones whilst in various countries around the world though.

[kerick]

We get them in the summer chasing bugs in the evening. Plenty of swifts and barn swallows too.

[zenrat]

When one of the trees in our backyard has something tempting to eat we get fruitbats (flying foxes) in them at night.
They roost elsewhere but fly in to feed.

Years ago we spent new years eve sitting drinking on a balcony at a friends place up at the Northern Victorian border.  We couldn't have any lights on as they attracted many many bugs so we sat in the dark.
There was a light down below on the corner of the house though and it was surrounded by huge clouds of tiny thrip type flies (venomous flesh eaters obviously) and the occasional larger insect such as big bogon moths.
Every so often all these insect would vanish.  And then a bat would swoop through the lighted area.  And when it was gone the bugs would come back.

[Rick Lowe]

big bogon moths.

Did they have the requisite Mullet? 

[Weaver]

Sometimes see bats during summer evenings. They live in the wood next door, although their numbers have dwindled. They are tiny, but I've seen huge ones whilst in various countries around the world though.

Same here. Acres of woodland behind my house.

[Nick]

I've seen a few bats flitting around the house here on a warm summer evening. Saw a pair in Lisbon last month near the Fairey III statue.

Several years back I stayed in the Helvellyn youth hostel and we had a lost bat flapping around the dorm. Had to leave the window open all night so it could get out. Hilarious but at the time a bit annoying.

[Mossie]

A400M Atlas just flew over. They occasionally do touch and goes at Humberside. Followed shortly after by a HM Coastguard Beech Kingair, didn't snap that one.

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[Old Wombat]

Not over my house (over Port Elliot, Sth Aust) & not today (yesterday) I watched a Chipmunk fly overhead, along the coast.

I believe it may be this one (not my photo);


Courtesy of: cdn.jetphotos.com

[scooter]

A Sea Stallion y'day over Trenton.

[zenrat]

An unidentified probable warbird circling Stately zen Manor.  Frustratingly below the visual horizon so I could only hear it.  Too loud to be GA hence the tentative ID.

[PR19_Kit]

Nothing, darn it.

I got so used to seeing and hearing numerous warbirds (Spitfires, Hurricanes, Mustangs etc.) whizzing along the 'corridor' between nearby Sywell and Duxford at my old 'country home' that I'm missing all the arial activity now.

[zenrat]

Nothing, darn it.

I got so used to seeing and hearing numerous warbirds (Spitfires, Hurricanes, Mustangs etc.) whizzing along the 'corridor' between nearby Sywell and Duxford at my old 'country home' that I'm missing all the arial activity now.

Do you perhaps know someone who might be able to route some air traffic over you?