by Emerald Red » Fri Jun 25, 2010 7:13 pm
Bat's are not blind contrary to popular belief. The expression blind as a bat probably comes from bats doing exactly what you saw, Lakes. They use sonar to locate insects in the air. If your bat was chasing one, it probably just smacked into the lampost by mistake or the lampost could have been giving out a slight vibration which it heard and confused it with a moth or something. I remember one time when I was a kid standing with a group of mates one night, and when one turned around, he'd a bat sitting on his shoulder. They're oddballs, them bats.