Readers share tales of coyote-deer interactions, squirrel theories and a question about those bat boxes near Highway 5.
While driving on I-5 near the almond orchards, I noticed what appeared to be bat houses between the road and the trees.
Yes, those are bat houses. The openings to the houses are on the bottom of the structure so that bat guano falls to the ground and doesn’t muck up the place. Each box provides daytime roosts for about 100 bats, and come dusk, the bats leave their home and swoop through the orchards looking for adult insects and larvae. Although the bats – mostly Mexican free-tailed and pallid bats – are small, they can eat up to 7 tons of insects a year.Here is another deer story. We live up a hill in Almaden with lots of open space. One morning on our driveway camera, I saw a coyote come trotting quickly down from the open space up above us.
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