Bats are seriously underappreciated and often irrationally feared.

What a face!

With the exception of cockroaches, mosquitoes and cicadas I am
fond of all most all of the nonhuman world. Well I am not sure about ticks either ..

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.

Until he gets in the house.

And get excited when one flies close by.

We have insect eating bats here in Georgia. They eat lots of mosquitoes!

between the bats and hummingbirds we are going through at least 5 lbs of sugar a week.

you could start a thread in GD asking if people would be interested in a wildlife/ecology group, then ask for it in ATA. I would be interested for sure, but honestly more people would see posts in GD or the Lounge.