Thursday, July 12, 2007
Bats in the "Belfrey"
If nature has a belfrey, this is probably as close to it as we have or would want to come. These are the rocks next to the waterfall shown in a previous blog (Wli Falls). At first nothing seems any different than rocks by a fall - but every now and again something moves - and if you look really hard you can see the little "rocks" or bumps - particularly in th shady areas. These are all fruit bats and contrary to common knowledge, they do make quite a racket during day time hours. As we were at the falls, the sound of water falling was challenged by the sound of these bats on the walls..jpg)
We've tried to blow a portion of the above photo up and you can see a little more clearly the bats hanging onto the rocks - it was quite a site. The only place we've seen that many is about a l Km. from the temple on Independence Avenue in Accra, there is one intersection there that during bat season the trees are inhabited by thousands of bats - hanging in the daytime, flying by night. # posted by Ghana Gazette @ 11:47 AM 
