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Written by David
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Monday, 17 September 2007 |
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Pipistrelle Bats
What a great few days, tucked away in the Derbyshire countryside at an isolated house with my two brothers. Surrounded by fields, woods and ponds, the wildlife was a real feature of our stay.
Pipistrelle Bats seemed to emerge from the property at dusk and treated us to nightly aerial spectaculars over the courtyard. We could hear a repeated "tick" - part of their high frequency clicks used for echo-locating their prey. I positioned my video camera looking up from one corner of the house where they swooped and twisted in pursuit of flying insects around the outside lights. From the few black silhouettes I captured, I made some studies and put together this composition, a mix of ink, acrylic and pencil on grey Canson card.
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