Flying Foxes, Cairns

By Cairns library in the trees hundreds of bats roost during the day. It's quite smelly if you walk below the trees! At dusk they start to wake and make quite a noise before flying off for the night.....  more

By Cairns library in the trees hundreds of bats roost during the day. It's quite smelly if you walk below the trees! At dusk they start to wake and make quite a noise before flying off for the night.....  more »

Wow. Very very cool. 100s of flying foxes and fruit bats. They sleep by day in the trees. But as the sun sets they wake up and make a lot of noise and maybe argue!! "No. It is my turn to lead... 

Wow. Very very cool. 100s of flying foxes and fruit bats. They sleep by day in the trees. But as the sun sets they wake up and make a lot of noise and maybe argue!! "No. It is my turn to lead...  more »

I never knew that a colony of fruit bats would reside in the mist of a city. My son was very fascinated by the Flying Foxes (bats) however, I found them to be somewhat eerie. If you have children... 

I never knew that a colony of fruit bats would reside in the mist of a city. My son was very fascinated by the Flying Foxes (bats) however, I found them to be somewhat eerie. If you have children...  more »