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Archive for August 18th, 2005

more bats

[posted: Thursday, 2005-08-18] [category: bats, nature, photo]

i’ve been hosting young bats again, over the weekend.
this time, there was :

  • the serotine bat (eptesicus serotinus, breitflügelfledermaus) that lived here previously,
  • two baby common pipistrelles (pipistrellus pipistrellus, zwergfledermaus),
  • an injured baby of kuhl’s pipistrelle (pipistrellus kuhlii, weißrandfledermaus),
  • a northern serotine bat (eptesicus nilssoni, nordfledermaus), and
  • an injured brown- or common long-eared bat (plecotus auritus or plecotus austriacus, braunes bzw. graues langohr), which unfortunately didn’t make it through the weekend.

the serotine bat can already fly (and will be released soon) – so i let it lap a couple of times in the room. it was amazing to watch!

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BTW: because of the rising number of bat-related posts, i decided to open a “bats” subcategory.

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cycling, zillertal valley

[posted: Thursday, 2005-08-18] [category: photo, travel]

last saturday, goti, andreas, anton and i decided to go for a cycling trip. all of us (except anton) hadn’t really done anything regarding sports, so we took an easy route for a start.

andreas, goti and anton

we rode our bikes from fügen (at the entry to the zillertal valley; north at the google image) to mayrhofen [G] (just about 40km).

since the zillertal valley is located in tirol, and it was a saturday, it rained. but what the heck.
we had a fun time and breakfast hardly ever tasted that good (including the fresh orange juice).
and to get home, we took a steam engine of the zillertalbahn, which was built in 1900.

 
[view photos: cycling, zillertal valley]

 
by the way: note the constant constellation of “andreas-goti-anton-me (behind the camera)” in all of the photos – even in the breakfast picture. i only noticed this afterwards.

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