Bats

Today I attended a Zoom meeting of the local master naturalists. Our speaker is a senior at the U of M in Duluth studying environmental outdoor education. Her favorite animal is the bat. Her research project was at the Boulder Lake Management Area which has a nature center which is about 22 miles north of where I live. Using a device that recorded bat sounds and identified the species, she found all seven of the Minnesota bats staying in the bat houses at Boulder Lake. She also walked three paths at Boulder Lake to find other bats. She is designing a citizen science project for people who might help her with the research. A local boy scout group made 70 more bat houses so she could use some help in monitoring those within the Boulder Lake Management Area. I have done frog surveys and owl surveys and bird surveys and secretive marsh bird surveys but never a bat survey. This could be a fun activity to do after sunset on summer nights with another person. I don't think I want to do a bat survey in the dark alone.