Here's a little beauty that I caught napping in the eaves of our porch today. Ohio has 9 species of bat: little brown, big brown, evening, Rafinesque's big-eared, silver-haired, eastern red, hoary, eastern small-footed, and Indiana. I'm pretty sure this is a little brown bat. It's really hard to identify bat species while in flight, so I am delighted that this little one sat still long enough for me to snap his pic.
Little brown bats like to forage over water, so this is probably the same species of bat we see swooping over the pond at dusk each night. An individual bat can consume up to 1,200 insects in just one hour of feeding, which is one of the reasons I am so fond of them.
