There’s A Bat in My House!

Question: Late one night recently, a bat flew into my house through an open window! I was sitting at the table and it flew right at me with its huge webbed wings. I swear it looked like it was in full in attack mode.

In my younger days I did a lot of caving (spelunking). If we passed any bats, they would sometimes go zooming around for a while before settling back down.  Sometimes they would fly right past or at our faces, which was startling when they suddenly appeared in the light from our headlamps.  But they knew exactly where we and all of the walls of the cave passage were located, and we were never concerned that they might hit or attack us.

If anybody wants to see bats here in NorCal, there are a couple of small talus caves in Pinnacles National Park, and we've always seen a few bats whenever we've been there. One of the caves (Bear Gulch) is closed most of the time, since an endangered bat species lives there, and I just read that the other one (Balconies) is, unfortunately, now closed due to "extensive vandalism". So, now may not be the time to go...