mackem 30,808 Posted December 26, 2014 Report Share Posted December 26, 2014 Just went to a bat roost as dusk was setting,didn't stay too long as the mozzies were coming in squadrons,the heat coming from the entrances was 2,000,000 bats packed closer than sardines,I went at dusk to see if any pythons or monitors were feeding but i was a bit early as all i saw were a number of rats,I took a shedload of pics with my camera at different entrances,i will try and get them off the camera sometime this week,I saw a few dead bats on the ground covered in cockroaches and assorted creepy-crawlies... 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
mushroom 14,274 Posted December 26, 2014 Report Share Posted December 26, 2014 Where are you Mackie??? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
mackem 30,808 Posted December 26, 2014 Author Report Share Posted December 26, 2014 At the moment mate sitting on powder white sand under a palm tree drinking ice cold coke from a bottle and contemplating life,its dark and warm water is lapping at the shore,southern mindanao,cotabato province,one of my kids took some good footage of the bats,if he uploads to youtube i will stick it up,I never went into the caves as the first thing they do when spooked and flitting around is empty their bladders,i went in one once and came out stinking of ammonia piss Quote Link to post Share on other sites
mushroom 14,274 Posted December 26, 2014 Report Share Posted December 26, 2014 Philippenes??? Nice mate, I want to go to Vietnam this summer but the mrs is bitching about Mexico ffs she's going for three months in a couple of weeks then wants to go back with me for a holiday in the summer sure babe I said sure love Quote Link to post Share on other sites
mackem 30,808 Posted December 27, 2014 Author Report Share Posted December 27, 2014 Got some of the pics from my camera,I was going to go tonight to see if there were any snakes at the entrance but theres rain,this affects the bats emergence,they dont come out like a swirling choreographed vortex but scatter willy-nilly. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
mackem 30,808 Posted December 27, 2014 Author Report Share Posted December 27, 2014 the bigger fruit bats like flying fox etc which roost in trees are hunted for food so its uncommon to see a massive roost locally but theres any number of so called micro-bat roosts around. 6 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
tomburras 2,730 Posted December 27, 2014 Report Share Posted December 27, 2014 Superb! Very interesting. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
mackem 30,808 Posted December 27, 2014 Author Report Share Posted December 27, 2014 I got into the overhang to get some pics tom and my kid who was a safe distance away was shouting get in closer dad dont be a woos,he wasn't the one whose eyes were watering with ammonia,I was only wearing shorts T-shirt and flip-flops and didn't want to wade through 18 inches of flea,tick and leech infested bat crap Quote Link to post Share on other sites
socks 32,253 Posted December 27, 2014 Report Share Posted December 27, 2014 I bet that cave fecking stinks ........... 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
mushroom 14,274 Posted December 27, 2014 Report Share Posted December 27, 2014 Smells like a dirty old man in a council estate boozer no doubt Quote Link to post Share on other sites
mackem 30,808 Posted December 31, 2014 Author Report Share Posted December 31, 2014 Smells like a dirty old man in a council estate The ammonia stings your eyes,but the smell is indescribable and its compounded by bat body-heat tropical heat and the smell of rotting vegetation Quote Link to post Share on other sites
mackem 30,808 Posted January 24, 2015 Author Report Share Posted January 24, 2015 I spent this morning fruitlessly flinging jelly-eels and micro-lures into a foetid polluted rubbish-filled klong in downtown bangkok with no results from the fish some of which looked to weigh a kilo or more judging by their backs,I surmise now they must be catfish rather than the snake-heads I originally thought,I was walking along the pavement,crowded market with a tiny 5 foot spinning-rod and matching reel when I caught a movement on a pile of floating bamboo which had been tethered in the edge for whatever reason,there were a few night herons hunched over but at the far end of the pile was movement,i went downstream crossed a footbridge and came back up to where I thought the bamboos were,went behind a fruit stall which backed onto the water and got quite a surprise,it was a 3 foot monitor lizard eating a large bullfrog then I spotted another smaller monitor maybe 2 foot I walked along the klong for maybe 2-3 miles and must have seen 18-20 seperate urban monitors and a small snake,the biggest monitor was actually swimming leisurely along but dove and vanished when I peeped over the top of the bank,urban wildlife even in the chaos thats bangkok,I will upload a few pics later in the week off my phone. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
bell 3,612 Posted January 24, 2015 Report Share Posted January 24, 2015 Get some pics up mate......tight lines. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
mushroom 14,274 Posted January 24, 2015 Report Share Posted January 24, 2015 Belter 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
skinner 348 Posted January 24, 2015 Report Share Posted January 24, 2015 feck me there some bats there , brilliant pics 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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