"Holy Heart Failure, Batman!" - Robin

Check out our middle-of-the-night-inside-the-house-flying-circles-around-first-the-bedroom-then-the-living-room-visitor!

Yuppers!  This little guy made his way inside the house in the middle of the night.

I grabbed our fishing net and caught the little booger.  He wasn't too pleased either, not at all.  For such a little guy he sure could carry on and put up quite a fuss.

It was difficult to get this bugger untangled from the net but fortunately I was able to.  He was set free with a stern talking to and with specific instructions to continue riding our ole homestead of the pesky mosquitoes.  Time will tell if he listens.

I'm Batman!

The bats have been out and about all Summer long.  We notice them out just before night fall and they go all night long.  They're constantly flying over the pool and our backyard. Counting them is difficult but suffice to say there are at least two or three.

Here are a couple cool shots.

Star-nose Mole

This little feller, a Star-nose mole, is known to be a good swimmer and can forage along the bottoms of streams and ponds. However, he met his match when he decided to take a dip in our pool. As you can see from the picture above he didn't fare too well.

The Star-nosed mole is not a rodent but rather one of the most distinctive mammal species. The startling nose appendages immediately set this mole apart from the five other North American species. This odd-looking mammal sports a grotesque crown of 22 fleshy tendrils around its snout, which can detect and gulp down its prey at a speed too fast for the human eye to follow, even though the animal is virtually blind.

From the moment that it touches insect larva with its proboscis, it takes just 230 milliseconds to check that it is edible and gobble it up. This is the fastest known reaction time in the animal kingdom, taking less than half the 650 milliseconds that a human driver needs to brake for a red light.