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Nature notes: I had never held a bat before this autumn evening

Common pipistrelle (Pipistrellus pipistrellus) bat. Source: Barracuda1983 / CC BY-SA (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/) I’ve watched bats many times from spring to autumn as they flit overhead in the fading light usually from around 20 minutes after sunset. But I’d not got close to one or held it in my hand, until a cool evening this September. I’d set off […]

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