Newsbot Posted August 24, 2007 Share Posted August 24, 2007 Islanders are being invited to take part in a bat walk and listen to a talk to mark European Bat Weekend. Source : http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/1/hi/world/...man/6962522.stm Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frances Posted August 24, 2007 Share Posted August 24, 2007 has our 'just in case' minister agreed this as bats are known as carriers of rabies and the last such case was confirmed this month in Shropshire - I'm sure he wouldn't like to be held responsible for any infection. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mission Posted August 24, 2007 Share Posted August 24, 2007 Der ner ner ner ner ner ner nerr ner... BAT MANN! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sarahc Posted August 24, 2007 Share Posted August 24, 2007 Bats fly around outside my house. They're cool. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frances Posted August 24, 2007 Share Posted August 24, 2007 read http://www.defra.gov.uk/animalh/diseases/n...ies/q&a.htm Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sarahc Posted August 24, 2007 Share Posted August 24, 2007 I'll stop sticking my fingers in their eyes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gladys Posted August 24, 2007 Share Posted August 24, 2007 Aren't they protected? (Not from Sarah sticking her fingers in their eyes.) So we can't kill them, so why not try to admire them. I think they are ace little creatures, I have only ever seen one in the wild and that was in Spain years ago. Can anyone tell me the last time a bat infected someone on the island with rabies? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Albert Tatlock Posted August 24, 2007 Share Posted August 24, 2007 Can anyone tell me the last time a bat infected someone on the island with rabies? No. But from my Ballakermeen days I always remember a few Rabies that carried bats (usually of the baseball type). A well known family in my day. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gladys Posted August 24, 2007 Share Posted August 24, 2007 And in mine! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moghrey Mie Posted August 25, 2007 Share Posted August 25, 2007 Islanders are being invited to take part in a bat walk and listen to a talk to mark European Bat Weekend. Source : http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/1/hi/world/...man/6962522.stm I've been on a bat walk in England and it was fascinating tracking their movements with a bat detector machine. I would thoroughly recommend a bat walk to anyone who hasn't experienced it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gladys Posted August 25, 2007 Share Posted August 25, 2007 We went this evening, it was so interesting and I realised that things that I had before thought were birds up too late or big moths were actually bats. They are very difficult to see as their appearances are fleeting; as soon as you are aware of them, they are gone. I didn't realise that there are seven species found on the Island! Although I doubt I will take it up as a hobby, I might just get one of those detectors and use it when walking the dogs one evening. A very pleasant and interesting evening, I would recommend it. I didn't manage to poke one in the eye though, nor did I snog one, so no risk of rabies! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
%age Posted August 25, 2007 Share Posted August 25, 2007 I soooo really want to have a go at the triviality of this BBC fed report except I know a family who used to be really into bats on the Island and so I feel a little bit disloyal having a go. The bats seemed to give them so much pleasure. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gladys Posted August 26, 2007 Share Posted August 26, 2007 Understand your point %age, but without this thread I would have been unaware. It is also part of a wider programme of bat walks throughout the British Isles, so I suppose is newsworthy in that, locally, we are participating in something wider. It was a really pleasant evening; no matter what the subject, I really admire anyone who is loves their subject, is authoritive and wants to share it with dumb-asses like me! There must have been 50 or 60 people there, which isn't bad turnout. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
%age Posted August 26, 2007 Share Posted August 26, 2007 Yep, as I hinted, I know a lovely family into bats on the Island. I am sure it is an ace* thing to do. But that said I still think it is super that the highly paid and world leading BBC have considered it a newsworthy item. Still, their presence on the Island has to be 'justified'** *ace is an ace word again btw ** overly use of single inverted commas is back too edited to add my quote from another thread: These clowns are being paid a healthy sum to feed us this drivel so that the BBC can come to a foreign country and justify lifting £Mmillions per year from us. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gladys Posted August 26, 2007 Share Posted August 26, 2007 Who are you, Asterisk the Gall? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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