On the way through Accra today, we were driving along just a few blocks north of the new
Presidential Palace and office building - which is shaped like a stool, the traditional symbol of power from the tribal chief days. Leslie looked up the road ahead of us and pointed out a huge flock of birds swarming around the trees lining one side of the street. There were so many, that we looked and looked and looked at them trying to figure out what they were. The only birds you see in any significant numbers here are vultures circling and these were too small and too many to be vultures. So, we 
continued pondering as we got closer – and finally I realized…They weren’t birds. They were bats!
There were, literally, hundreds of them, in broad daylight, flying around the tops of these very tall trees. Something must have disturbed them because by
the time we got close, they had mostly settle back down into the tree. But the closer we got, the more we saw – lined up hanging upside down from every branch, one after the other. It was wild and just a little creepy.I think I prefer my bats as construction paper cutouts on the window at Halloween!
BOO!
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