The bats have come back to Carlsbad, they leave in the winter time. I get off of work very early in the morning, these days. I'm staying at the KOA less than 2 miles from Q-Village. Lately I've been sitting at the picnic table outside my cabin to eat my dinner. My cabin has a little yard with a sweet-smelling flowering bush. There are some large moths that come there for their dinner, too. There's also a streetlight beside my cabin. I can sit out there and watch the bats swoop through the light catching insects. The other night I heard and saw something hit the road under the light. I thought that a bat had fallen down, so I got up to look. It wasn't a bat, it was one of the moths. I stood under the light and I noticed that the bats were teaming up to fly into the moths and knock them out of the air. Every few minutes a moth would fall. After a while the moth would try to fly again, but it would be slow and injured and clumsy, and then it would be bat food. These bats are really cool critters, and totally fearless. As I was standing out under the light, they flew very close to me, not in the least concerned or curious about me. Watching them is something I look forward to every night after work.
