Paphos Life

It's amazing what you can discover when you go for a drive and stop to have a look around. It started with a pond, continued with a gorge, and then went full circle back to the pond. In this, the final episode of our little saga, we cross from the pond back to the lip of the gorge itself, and are greeted by a multitude of bats, and a couple of friendly hounds.
 
Read the article and chat about it below...
 

A great blog and film footage
I’ve never seen bats that size fascinating

It was a shame I had the muffler on the mic. The sound they made was phenomenal.

We have a few bats around our home but I have never heard them making a sound.

Lovely blog and video. Amazing to see the bats in daytime as they normally hide and come out to eat only at nighttime.
They are Egyptian fruit bats (Rousettus aegyptiacus) ( Νυχτοπάππαρος - Φρουτονυχτερίδα ) and if you translate their Greek name it means something like: fruit night eater ( froutonichterida)

Living in the Polis area in the past I often saw and heard them in nighttime at my house where they were feeding always in the neighbors farm, mainly figs.

Max

I visited the site twice. The first time, when I saw the bats, was early morning.