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Bat to the head

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  • Started 10 years ago by Dunny
  • Latest reply from tammytroot

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  1. Dunny
    Member

    I just came off the canal and onto the water of leith path at the back of Asda at Chesser, passing the allotments on the right when what I'm pretty certain was a renegade bat kamikaze'd into the top of my helmet. Bear in mind I've just passed a graveyard and it's pitch dark. I have never been so terrified in my life! I got out of there fast.

    How it never heard me I don't know. I made the strangest sound when it happened, something I can only convey as 'ooWAoo'.

    This ever happened to anyone else?

    Posted 10 years ago #

  2. Tulyar
    Member

    Collided facially with small dark furry thing when riding on unlit road back to work camp on Loch Venachar one night and espied a great amount of activity in the light available from stars - unassisted by sodium or mercury and electricity.

    Posted 10 years ago #

  3. Dunny
    Member

    I had lights but that just brought the gravestones into view. Now that I'm home it seems daft but when it happened all I could think was cold shower, foetal position.

    Posted 10 years ago #

  4. Uberuce
    Member

    Did you stop you check if the vampire was okay?

    Posted 10 years ago #

  5. Dunny
    Member

    I didn't. Vamps are a protected species though so I hope so!

    Posted 10 years ago #

  6. Focus
    Member

    When I read the topic title, I was expecting some sad tale of an assault with a baseball bat!

    I regularly see bats on the Roseburn Path and up at Juniper Green on the WoL path. I also suspect they can be attracted to the very faint whine that comes from my Tacx bar-end lights on my road bike.

    They've always been very spatially aware around me though - perhaps you were attracting insects Dunny! ;-p

    Posted 10 years ago #

  7. Dunny
    Member

    "When I read the topic title, I was expecting some sad tale of an assault with a baseball bat!"

    Once I posted it I realised it could be taken as a baseball bat attack, sorry about that!

    I knew these parts were inhabited by them, never even came close to a run in with one before though. If it wasn't a bat, it was a moth from the Jurassic era!

    Posted 10 years ago #

  8. cb
    Member

    I read the first line as:

    I just came off the canal and into the water of leith

    Was wondering why you weren't making much of a deal about getting a soaking...

    If humans ever evolve echo-location abilities it could resolve the bright-lights-on-the-towpath problem.

    Posted 10 years ago #

  9. Dunny
    Member

    I did get a soaking, I was terrified! Just not from the WoL...

    Posted 10 years ago #

  10. Cyclingmollie
    Member

    cb: "If humans ever evolve echo-location abilities"

    We have. Blind man cycling using echo location.

    Posted 10 years ago #

  11. Dunny
    Member

    That's incredible! Going to start using this at bridges on the canal.

    Posted 10 years ago #

  12. allebong
    Member

    I don't have the patience to learn echo location so I'll let technology do it. Anyone know how to mount one of these to the bike?

    Posted 10 years ago #

  13. sallyhinch
    Member

    eek! I've often had bats flying round and over me at dusk but never hit one or been hit by one. I think I'd have reacted the same...

    Posted 10 years ago #

  14. gembo
    Member

    I had to duck from some sparrows in the garden the other week, they are quite mental

    Posted 10 years ago #

  15. tammytroot
    Member

    Was probably a Daubenton's bat.
    One flew into my wife's head when we were fishing once.

    Posted 10 years ago #

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