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Spotted on Jan 9, 2012
Submitted on Jan 9, 2012
2 Comments
Please consider adding this spotting to the new North American Bat Tracker mission at http://www.projectnoah.org/missions/1830...
Good eye on finding this one! If you have any closer photos, I may be able to give you a more defined identification, but as it is I can only venture a guess. Since it looks like it is roosted on the side of a building (parking garage?), and the forearms look a lighter color than the pelage, I will suggest a tri-colored bat (Perimyotis subflavus). However, this is by no means a positive i.d...Here is a link to all of the bats found in Virginia:http://www.batcon.org/index.php/all-about-bats/species-profiles.html
Was this spotting actually on January 9th, or did you see it earlier? Not that it couldn't happen, its just that this is typically the time of reduced activity for bats.