a little departure

Here’s a little departure from all the winter stems and branches. We are finally getting some insulation in our roof (remember that tree that fell on the house in July?), and when the contractor removed the temporary barrier to install the new insulation, this little guy fell onto my living room floor. He was alive, but very groggy. Clearly he had been awakened from a deep mid-winter hibernation. I snapped a few quick photos, and then we bundled him up and my son took him to the Wild Animal Rescue center near us, where apparently they’ll put him back in hibernation until spring. I don’t mind bats. We like seeing them come out in the summer evening twilight. They do us a great service, eating all those mosquitos. I wish we hadn’t had to disturbed him.

Little Brown Bat (Myotis lucifugus)