Bats
Personal memory by Sam Folmar
2000 • Columbus, OH, USA
I have lived in Columbus, Ohio for almost 50 years. In the last few years, I have noticed that, in the evening, I never see bats darting in the twilight. When I first came to this part of the city, I would see them whenever I looked up in the warm months. Now they are gone.
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