A rescued evening bat was observed in the Cherrywood neighborhood in east Austin. Dianne Odegard and Lee Mackenzie rescue injured and orphaned bats in their home and backyard. Evening bats like to live inside trees, and this particular evening bat makes its home inside a log with quite a history. This piece of wood belonged to a tree which was cut down and run through a log splitter–when this particular piece was split, it was found to be hollow, with a completely unharmed evening bat (not the same bat as the one pictured) nestled inside! The bat was then brought to Dianne and Lee to be rehabbed, and the wood kept as a home for its current inhabitant. You can see where the split wood was hinged to create a come, and the bat is hungrily munching on a mealworm.
My iNaturalist observation can be found here.
