>>3215386First anon I want to thank you for your interest. I hope you aren't being sarcastic.
Those big bats (aka flying foxes) have a tendancy to die in utility lines. I wouldn't go so far as to say it's common, but everyone around these parts has seen it. Trees, power lines, etc., they just seem to crash and hang in them when it's die time.
So this little bugga died in the power lines in the alley outside my house. I promptly went out and togged it purely for the novelty of the situation. As the weeks drew on the bat remained, slowly becoming both a mummy and a curiosity in the neighbourhood. Often our neighbours could be heard to discuss how long it's been there and how long, they wondered, it would stay up there.
SO I checked the first photo to find the date, which was the 21st of the month. I decided to take a photo of it on the 21st of each month as long as it was still up there. As you can see the lighting and cloud conditions changed but I stuck to my guns - golden hour on the 21st of each month.
The day I took the first photo we think was the 2nd or 3rd day it was in the power lines, literaly the day after the last photo it fell into a heap in the alley. There's still a leathery patch of fur on the pavement that's been run over god knows how many times, and this was like 2 months ago.
Anywho, I framed a couple and gifted them to friends, one of which really loves it.
>sorry for the redundancy to anyone who has seen me post the story before 