Day 14: British #Bats...Who knew? #CountdowntoHalloween2026

As I snoop around the Halloween kingdom, I sometimes come across some bewildering things. As I mentioned on our Countdown to Halloween blog, I am currently visiting in the UK. 

I picked up a discarded book at the local town center. This book full of intriguing photos about the British Countryside. In it was the photo above entitled, "British Bats."  Now, I have seen bats in the wild before, in a cave, in the US, but never thought about the fact that maybe they exist somewhere else.

I learned from this page that actually there are 900 different species in the world and 14 of the variety live right here in the UK. The ones above are apparently the most common. Who knew? Certain not me!

So listed above is: The Lesser Horseshoe Bat, The Greater Horseshoe Bat, Natterer's Bat, Pipstrella Bat, Saubenton's Bat, Noctule Bat, Whiskered Bat, and the Long-eared Bat.

 Fascinating!

I particularly liked that a couple of them were named after people. How peculiar and simply quite batty. Now I want to know the other countries that might have bats exclusive to their country and what ours are in the U.S. 

Fly high.

~Crypt Keeper, Michelle

Day 8: It's All Fun and Games Until You Go Batty #bats #games #countdowntoHalloween

This post has completely gone batty and why not?! It is Halloween season after all and our friendly bats have come out of their homes to play. Of course we can play too with them in all these fun games I have found. Check them out.

Crypt keeper, Michelle

Bats Game 1

Bats Game 2

Bats Game 3

Day 6: #Bat Adoption #countdowntoHalloween2026 #animaladoption

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I have been in the UK for a couple of months now and I found out there is a Bat Conservation Trust here. This is their website link if you would like to read more about them. Bat Conservation In the UK

The site has so much information on it including how to build bat houses and what bats actually do for the eco system. One of the coolest things that I found out from the site is that you can actually adopt a bat. Seriously, who doesn't want to have your own pet vampire that someone else takes care of! ha!

Check it out and become a member if you want.