Since moving in, we’ve come into contact with our fair share of critters.  For instance, meet this friendly grub found in the framing of the old back door.  The rotting wood was an ideal home for this creepy crawly.

What about this furry fiend? Rick snapped a close-up of this moth on the kitchen window as it was drawn to the lights inside our house:

Of course, we have encountered many spiders around the house, ranging from the small ones that inhabit the corners of our windows, to the big ones (with extra long legs) that claim the ceiling corners in our bathroom as their home. We’ve ran across a number of ladybugs, especially in the attic. Rick has caught sight of a small black snake in the bushes at the front of our house. We’ve had rabbits and deer visit our home. But nothing is quite as strange as the ‘present’ that was left on the sofa the other day:

Can you tell what it is? It took me a second to figure out what little creature had been lovingly placed on my seat by one of the dogs (Reebs looked the most guilty). Yes, it’s a bat! We’ve seen the bats fly around outside the front door some evenings, but I haven’t got a clue where this little fella came from (or whether one of the dogs caught the bat or merely found it and brought it inside).

I grabbed a napkin from the side table, picked the bat up from the sofa and snapped a few more photos. The macabre juxtaposition of the dead bat with the Subway logo was unintentional, although it does give new meaning to their slogan – Subway, Eat Fresh. Would you like a side of bat with your sandwich? Would that make it a batwich?

Tags: bats, bugs, critters