neat creatures part 2

I forgot to mention two more neat creatures in my last post so I will tell you about them now. I have seen alot of bats this year! Just the other day Stephen was outside in the front yard in the dark, and he felt something fly past him, so he went inside and got the flashlight. He went back outside and turned the flaslight on and saw hundreds of bats swarming our yard! He then brought me outside with the flashlight off and asked me if I noticed anything different about our front yard, and I said no. Then he turned the flash light back on and I noticed all the bats! We stood out there with the flashlight on for a very very long time and watched the bats. The moths were attracted to our flash light so they would fly realy close to us and the bats would fly down and catch them. Alot of times the bats came less than six inches away from our body's, maybe even closer sometimes! Every time a bat would come close I would giggle my head off because of the thrilling, excited, and startled feeling that would rush through my body. I was probably keeping the neighbors awake, but Steve and I were having tons of fun with the bats!!!! It was a blast! Its one of the big highlights of this year, because it was just so cool!! There were so many bats that night because it had been cold for some days before and so the bugs were not out for a while. Once it started to warm up again the bugs finally came out and so the bats were eating them like crazy. I have also seen alot more owls this year than usuall. There has even been an owl that was sitting on top of Steve's parents hill and the sun hadn't even gone down yet. Another cool owl experiance is when Steve and I were driving in the car at night and we looked out the window and saw an owl flying along side us not that far away.