Northern Red Bat
Pee Dee National Wildlife Refuge, NC 2004 | View large image
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Though tiny, this is not a baby bat but rather an almost-mature juvenile Northern Red Bat. He was one of many counted in a census conducted by bat biologists in central North Carolina in the summer of 2004. This is not one of my long exposures, but I include him in this show because I think of bats as the totem animals of night dwellers everywhere. Bats know that the best hunting (whether it’s insects or photographs) happens between dusk and 2 a.m.