Urban Hawks

Tonight there continued to be a large number of bats at dusk flying around the Model Boat Pond. 

(Pale Male roosted on a building a block south of his nest.  He’s done this two other nights this week.)

My study of the bats at the Model Boat Pond in Central Park continues.  I used a flash to photograph the bats tonight.  I was able to get a few good shots of the bats.   I think it’s going to take me weeks to learn how to shoot these bats!

There were one or two Silver-haired Bats in with the mix of Eastern Red Bats and Big Brown Bats.

I’ve somehow become addicted to watching the bats at dusk in Central Park at the model boat pond.  I even invested in a Echo Meter Touch bat detector so I can see spectrograms of the bat’s echolocation sounds.  The detector is identifying (with 80% certainty) an almost even mix of Eastern Red Bats and Big Brown Bats.  The Eastern Red Bats appear earlier in the evening followed by the Big Brown Bats.

Walking around the lake and out the west side of the park, I was able to detect two more Eastern Red Bats and two more Big Brown Bats tonight.

Another day trying to capture photos of bats at the Model Boat Pond in Central Park.  They’re a lot harder to photograph than Red-tailed Hawks!