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Expert: Wet winter has produced unexpected side effect — bats

Original post made on Nov 1, 2023

With Halloween on the horizon, skeletons, pumpkins and ghosts are appearing all over the Midpeninsula. But there’s one harbinger of Halloween that sticks around in Palo Alto year-round — bats.

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Posted by AimeeS
a resident of Portola Valley: Los Trancos Woods/Vista Verde
on Nov 1, 2023 at 10:13 am
AimeeS is a registered user.

I'm delighted to hear that CA now has an official state bat, the pallid bat! I personally would have chosen the Mexican free-tailed bat. Nevertheless, that's only because that's the one I have the most experience with at my home in the oak woods of Portola Valley.

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