Sonar in the City

August 10th, 2006
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My roommate James and I were out on the front porch having a smoke when we noticed this confused bird flying in a very erratic circle pattern. After a few minutes, James suggested that maybe it wasn’t a bird, that it was a bat.

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I kept thinking nahh, not in the middle of the city of Chicago. I mean, I’d heard of them maybe in the northwest Forest Preserve, or the Dan Ryan Woods, but not near Midway Airport. Then James came up with an idea: Get his camera and grab a few shots. Easier said than done with a hyper bat. Still he managed to snap some pics.