I was getting quite giddy about our having a Nathusius' pipistrelle flying about the front garden until I noticed that the signal apparently from a calling bat coincided with a neighbour unlocking and locking his car door.
I'd been wondering which species of pipistrelle we have flitting about the back garden some nights, the bat detector my brother bought me tells me they're not soprano pipistrelles, they're common pipistrelles. I don't mind either way, I was just curious which they were. It seems a bit mean to call them just "common" pipistrelles though. Why not "big, butch pipistrelles with deep manly voices?" or "Irish tenor pipistrelles?" It's always the sopranos gets the special treatment.
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