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Outdoor Life

jfz9580m

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9. Same here..

Reply to AJT (Reply #2)

Thu Oct 26, 2023, 03:57 AM

Oct 2023

I love hearing them screech as they fly overhead around this time of the year.

I feel there are fewer these days than in the earlier years, but I am not sure. I think they are fruitbats of some sort. I have a roseapple tree in our garden and they sometimes eat the fruit.

One once fell into our garden and I was at my wit's end re: what to do-what wildlife rescue group to contact. My local shelter/wildlife rescue is sadly underfunded.

And my awful cats were hanging around..but it somehow extricated itself and flew away.

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