Front yard visitor

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Link to tweet

[EYESORE 9001]

1. I see the resemblance

but I’d much rather have this Vlad in my yard.

[mnhtnbb]

2. When we lived in Nebraska

we had a pool in the backyard. In the summer, late evening, bats would swoop down into the pool to get a sip of water.

Ack!! My two boys really got a kick out of it. If they were out playing around, the bats never got near them, but would still swoop down and touch the water. Maybe they were playing, too?

[lark]

4. There are lots of bats here.

It's cool when they come out in the evening, darting everywhere. Several times they have swooped right by me, getting a look at their neighbor. Never got too close though, maybe 2-3 feet away, which is still amazing.

[benfranklin1776]

3. This chap is far more handsome

And unlike his barbarous Russian namesake, he contributes to the welfare of humanity by gobbling disease carrying mosquitoes. His namesake is, by contrast, the embodiment of pestilence and disease.

[Tadpole Raisin]

9. LOL, you put a lot in those 2 sentences. Nicely done!

[Kali]

21. that is not a insectivorous bat

fruit and flowers

[benfranklin1776]

23. Well then he still performs a more useful function than Putrid

He assists in pollination of flowers and proliferation of fruit trees through seed dispersal, whereas Putrid spreads lies and hate and is responsible for the growth of human rights crushing dictatorships. So he’s superior in those metrics as well, AND still far more handsome.

[jaxexpat]

5. That's a big one.

[The Jungle 1]

6. I have an outside light and the moths fly around it.

The bats come to feed. In the morning moth wings litter the ground.

[AverageOldGuy]

7. Figs??? Figs???

Were do you live that you have figs in March?

My fig trees have yet to put out the first leaf in Eastern Virginia on the Chesapeake Bay.

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8. I don't know - not my twitter post

I just saw this on twitter and posted it here

[Historic NY]

10. Fruit Bats are the largest..

[TeamProg]

12. That's exactly what I was thinking, but fruit bats are mostly brown colored. n/t

[TeamProg]

11. Where was this taken? n/t

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15. Her profile says Australia

University of Melbourne | MSD · School of Social and Political Sciences
PhD

[wendyb-NC]

13. It would be

A wonderful if the other Vlad would get the brains to go into a self imposed exile, and hang upside down cloaked in the darkness that is him and implode his own being into nothing.

That is an incredible creature, hanging out in your area. Tfg's Vlad, probably doesn't have the intelligence or insight to just go away.

[milestogo]

18. This is in Australia, I'm in Wisconsin

If I saw one of these I would die of shock.

[TygrBright]

14. What a cutie! Lucky you. n/t

[Texin]

16. Damn! That's a big ass bat.

I see a few around our house from time to time, but they're teeny tiny. This guy looks like he's ready for his close up. Handsome devil.

[CaptainTruth]

17. The Batman movie was just released, probably more promo for the movie...

...it's everywhere.

[Lady Freedom Returns]

19. Batsy, batsy, bats!

🦇

[NJCher]

20. Now that

is so incredibly cool.

[frogmarch]

22. Pleased to meetcha, Vlad :)

Years ago I worked at a tourist information stop in the Black Hills, which in the late 1800s had been a little railroad depot. Bats nested in the attic, and one day, the ceiling collapsed from the weight of all the bat guano. Yikes.

I still like bats.

[Skittles]

24. HE THINKS HE IS ALL THAT

INDEED HE DOES

[Stuart G]

25. Well ...The bat's on me!

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