{"id":651,"date":"2013-07-09T10:14:07","date_gmt":"2013-07-09T14:14:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sicloot.com\/blog\/?p=651"},"modified":"2014-04-07T01:08:11","modified_gmt":"2014-04-07T05:08:11","slug":"bats-at-jamaica-pond","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sicloot.com\/blog\/2013\/07\/bats-at-jamaica-pond\/","title":{"rendered":"Bats at Jamaica Pond"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last week, we headed to Jamaica Pond at dusk to see if we could find any bats.  Two friends with a bat detector joined us.  This device picks up the echolocation calls that bats use to create an image of their surroundings in the dark.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_652\" aria-labelledby=\"figcaption_attachment_652\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"width: 610px\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/sicloot.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/AJYL0101.jpg\" alt=\"Bat detector\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" class=\"size-full wp-image-652\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sicloot.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/AJYL0101.jpg 600w, https:\/\/sicloot.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/AJYL0101-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><figcaption id=\"figcaption_attachment_652\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bat detector<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>We started detecting the bats around 9:30pm on the north side of the Pond near the old Pinebank mansion.  The calls got louder as the bats approached us.  We even managed to see a few, although it was too dark to take photos.<\/p>\n<p>We climbed the stairs and proceeded to the baseball field.  More bats!<\/p>\n<p>Most of the bats called at around 30 kHz which, according to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.batcallid.com\/Echolocation.html\">this chart<\/a>, makes them big brown bats.  This squares with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.massaudubon.org\/Nature_Connection\/wildlife\/index.php?subject=Mammals&#038;id=20\">Mass Audubon<\/a>, which says that big brown bats prefer urban areas.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to Kieran and Sandy for teaching us how to detect bats.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last week, we headed to Jamaica Pond at dusk to see if we could find any bats. Two friends with a bat detector joined us. This device picks up the echolocation calls that bats use to create an image of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sicloot.com\/blog\/2013\/07\/bats-at-jamaica-pond\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[291,292,190,72,63,101,493],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sicloot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/651"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sicloot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sicloot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sicloot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sicloot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=651"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/sicloot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/651\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1404,"href":"https:\/\/sicloot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/651\/revisions\/1404"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sicloot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=651"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sicloot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=651"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sicloot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=651"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}