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@Roberta,

thanks Roberta

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@tsarstepan,

I'm thinking it's a grey (um, on the blue side of grey) with black patches and that reads blue..

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@ossobuco,

do ya like a Bat, Boida...

http://able2know.org/topic/111721-904#post-3881369

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@Izzie,

Izzie, they are strangely cute in their own manner. Smile

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@Izzie,

LOVE bats!!!

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Cute-fest! Is that bat ok?

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@littlek,

Before the day is over... I found out that Wednesday the 20th was supposed to be National Penguin Awareness Day:
http://www.csmonitor.com/CSM-Photo-Galleries/In-Pictures/National-Penguin-Awareness-Day

http://www.csmonitor.com/var/ezflow_site/storage/images/media/images/csm-photo-galleries-images/national-penguin-day/01/7245689-1-eng-US/01_full_600.jpg

http://www.csmonitor.com/var/ezflow_site/storage/images/media/images/csm-photo-galleries-images/national-penguin-day/08/7245808-1-eng-US/08_full_600.jpg

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A two-month-old king penguin chick lifts the ends of its feet off the frozen ice and snow at its enclosure in the Edinburgh Zoo in Scotland on Dec. 21. The chick is the first king penguin to be born at the zoo in over five years.

http://www.csmonitor.com/var/ezflow_site/storage/images/media/images/csm-photo-galleries-images/national-penguin-day/13/7245893-1-eng-US/13_full_600.jpg

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Rapidly growing penguin chicks, clad in their brown, downy feathers, explore the Bay of Isles penguin colony where the chicks group together for warmth and safety while their parents are feeding in the sea off of South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands in the south Atlantic Ocean.

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@dlowan,

I've said this before on ak2, but, so..

my husband and I went to death valley in (I think it was) july, or late june. Almost no one else visible around for many miles. We stayed at the cheapo place related to the main hotel for low money. But.. by virtue of that, we got to use the hotel pool. And we did. I remember finally relaxing that no one was going to throw us out, and getting into the warm and nice pool (never mind the architecture, you know me). It turned out that bats flew over us repeatedly but I never saw them, which was good or I might have drowned myself.

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Although I try to be open-minded, I confess that some animals make me uncomfortable. Bats fall into that category. Although I gotta tell ya, Izzie, in a couple of pics, I thought, hey not uncomfortable. Cute. And I do find bats to be fascinating animals. Just from a distance.

tsar, Penguins don't not fall into the discomfort category for me. And they fit into the cute category just fine, especially those furry brown chicks.

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@Roberta,

Are you happier with flying foxes?

http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1341/1418508348_95fe137dcf.jpg

http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1331/1384862664_781f75c906.jpg

http://www.anhs.com.au/images/spectacledflyingfox_9532.jpg

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2007/09/images/070918-flying-fox.jpg

http://www.magnetictimes.com.au/images/uploads/Flying-fox-face-AthertonW.jpg

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@dlowan,

I LOVE dem bats:

http://fireflyforest.net/images/firefly/2006/October/Lesser-Long-nosed-Bat-2.jpg

http://www.vet.cornell.edu/oge/Pictures/White%20Winged%20Vampire%20bats%20Dan%20Riskin.jpg

http://www.beekeeping.com/articles/us/pictures/birds_bees_bats_2.jpg

Bat ears:

http://www.wec.ufl.edu/extension/wildlife_info/faq/images/bat_hanging_lg.jpg

http://www.deepcreektimes.com/kids/brown20bat.jpeg

Though vampire bats can look a LITTLE unsettling

http://scienceblogs.com/afarensis/upload/2006/06/Vampire%20Bat%201.jpg

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The faces are fine, deb. The wings make me noivous. Why? Not sure.

Speaking of wings, here's the wandering albatross, the bird with the widest wingspan. Mighty impressive.

http://www.kentos.org.uk/Trip%20Reports/images/WanderingAlbatross2_000.jpg

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@Roberta,

I never see that bird that I don't think of Coleridge, Roberta.

I never see this one that I don't think of Cocoa Beach. We were trying to spot this sea cow, and all we saw were king sized catfish.

http://rickoshea.files.wordpress.com/2008/03/manatee.jpg

I never see a bat that I don't think of vampires. YIKES!

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@Letty,

Letty,

Me too. I decided on the bird. Then I reread the "Rime of the Ancient Mariner." I was an English Lit major.

Manatees! Definitely a Florida connection.

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@Izzie,

Izzie wrote:

do ya like a Bat, Boida...

[flash]http://picasaweb.google.co.uk/s/c/bin/slideshow.swf?host=picasaweb.google.co.uk&hl=en_GB&feat=flashalbum&RGB=0x000000&feed=http%3A%2F%2Fpicasaweb.google.co.uk%2Fdata%2Ffeed%2Fapi%2Fuser%2Fizzielzzie454%2Falbumid%2F5428920608514978865%3Falt%3Drss%26kind%3Dphoto%26hl%3Den_GB[/flash]

http://able2know.org/topic/111721-904#post-3881369

You are under arrest, Miss Izzie. Just read on the Yabberliner that photographing bats in your neck of the woods is against the law! OK. Hands up against the wall and spread 'em.

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http://www.csmonitor.com/var/ezflow_site/storage/images/media/images/csm-photo-galleries-images/photos-of-the-day-images/2010/0121/09/7253176-1-eng-US/09_full_600.jpg

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A man holds his hand near a pelican at St. James's Park near Lancaster House in London on Thursday.

Matt Dunham/AP

http://www.csmonitor.com/CSM-Photo-Galleries/Photos-of-the-Day/2010/Photos-of-the-Day-01-21/(photo)/9

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Hey tsar, Tell that man to watch out. I once tried getting friendly with a swan in Frogner Park in Oslo, Norway. There's a photograph of me somewhere being chased by a swan in Frogner Park in Oslo.

I love dem boids, but it ain't always mutual.

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@Roberta,

Last summer I had to pick up my nephew, football style, to run away from a vicious asian goose at a park in Portland. That's what we get for feeding the birds.

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@littlek,

Maybe it's just water birds, k. When I was in London, I was feeding pigeons. They were all over my arms, shoulders, and hands. Not one took a dump!

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