📷 REALTALK Story: A bat in my bedroom! (English Version)

Hi Steemians, on tuesday/wednesday I experienced a strange situation and would like to share the story with you.

It started when I went to bed at tuesday at night and turned off the light... I was almost asleep when I suddenly heard a fluttering sound. Sometimes it stopped, but whenever I have moved a little bit the noise started again. Sometimes it was even louder, sometimes even quieter and then I thought that it must come from outside my window firstly. But after a while I noticed that the noise was too loud for outside my window, because my window was closed completely. When the noise started to annoying, I got out of the bed and turned on the light. Suddenly I saw the cause of the noise directly above me... A bat fluttered back and forth in my bedroom wildly! :)

You can imagine that I couldn´t believe my eyes and I though that I was dreaming, because my window in the bedroom was closed since early afternoon and even before only on tipped and I live in the middle of the city on the 4th floor. I grabbed my cell phone immediately and made a video of the flying bat in my bedroom, just to have a proof for myself. Then I "armed" myself with a towel and tried to throw it over the bat when she fly to me, to catch her from the top. The bat was much too fast for me and I've changed the strategy. I waited for a few minutes in my living room until there was no noise from outside the bedroom and then I searched for the bat. After a felt 1/2 hour I found her hidden under a chair and at first I made a photo, but unfortunately the quality is not so good, because it was so dark and I've zoomed in so that you can see the small animal at all.

Here is the photo of the bat under the chair:

My plan was to catch her from below with an open shoebox by pushing her inside from above. The bat didn't like that and she spat at me with a loud shrill noise, so that I was too hesitant with the push. So my chance was already gone and the bat fluttered around in my room again wildly. ^^

And another try... I went back in my living room, waited until the bat has calmed down and I searched her again. This time I was looking for her about a felt hour, but I simply couldn´t find her. I have scanned everything in my sleeping room, even at some point I just made loud noises, so that she will come out of her hiding place, but there wasn´t any trace of her.

Because the sund was already rising outside I gave up the search and fold out the couch in my living room to sleep undisturbed here. That the bat was simply away, but that she had to be in my bedroom for sure, pursued me for a long time before I fell asleep and I even looked at the pictures on my phone before, because the situation semmed to be very unreal for me again. XD

On the next day I ran in my bedroom after getting up immediately and have started the search again. This time I found her relatively quickly, hanging on my curtain at the window and then I catched her in a plastic container before she will start to fly again.

Here is a close-up of the bat, after I catched her in a plastic container:

Because it was a very sunny and warm day on wednesday and bats are usually sleeping during the day as known, I have placed her in the shoe box with a soft towel, so that she can rest off the day. It seemed that she welcomed that a lot, because I haven´t heard a peep out of the box all day long. Only when it started to get dark outside slowly at around 18:00 I heard that the bat was scratching inside the box and short time later also her high tweeting. That was the time to dismiss her in the freedom again, so that she can eat away the annoying mosquitoes. :)

P.S. interesting to know: A single bat can eat up to 1000 mosquitoes in one night. So they are very important for us humans, we don´t want not imagine what would be going on in the sky, if there wouldn´t be bats...

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Best regards and hear you in my next article!
[German] Beste Grüße und wir hören uns in meinem nächsten Artikel!

Jonas Ahrens