The dogs and I came across this chap a week or so ago – I think that it was a pipistrelle bat, but only because this is the most common bat on the UK – proper identification is by wingspan, and I wasn’t going to risk being bitten by spreading its wings out. It was on a neighbours drive as we were heading down the lane to the fields, and so fortunately the dogs were still on their leads.
The bat was crawling around in broad daylight, and the weird thing was that, instead of trying to get away from us as you would expect a wild creature to do, it kept turning to face us and crawling towards us as I kept pulling the curious dogs away. Scary. Presumably it was suffering from some sort of disease – I trust it wasn’t rabies…
It had gone by the time that we returned from our walk.
Technically we live in Oaktree House, but sadly the tree had to go.
We now have a thriving Oakstump at the front of the house.
