In the back yard of the house, there are different things show up out of no where. Spider web, trash bag, big glass hopper, a piece of plastic that I have no idea what it is for, a big piece of pine tree leaf, and so on…

One day my wife told me there was a bat hanging outside in the morning while I was at work. She said she was so surprised that she forgot to take picture of.

On the next day, while I was watering the back yard, my wife in the house suddenly yelled, “bat!”

I looked at the direction where she was pointing at. It took me some time to recognize the little dark gray creature sticking and crawling on the mosquito net at the door.

I immediately took my cell phone and started filming. Some of you may have seen bat in real life but they are not anything pleasant to look at but I had never seen one so, I was filming as I observed what it does.

I have observed it for some time out of curiosity but at the same time, I was a little scared of the creature. I wanted to go into the house but I was worried that it may fly into the house when I open the mosquito net.

After a while, I realized that the little bat would not go anywhere for some time so I picked a stick to see if it would grab onto it so that I could remove him out of my way. I may have scared the creature, and it has started crawling again on the net. I’ve tried to offer the stick but it just ran away from it.

I looked in the yard and I saw a piece of palm tree leaf with a big dried surface that looked like a scooper. I have grabbed the leaf and glided against the mosquito net so that the little bat would hop onto it or fall onto it.

Bingo! Though unwillingly, it has fell on the leaf. I have hurried to the short bush area of the backyard and placed the leaf on the soil.

The bat has crawled off the leaf, and crawled towards my onion garden. After exploring the area, it has started climbing the wall behind the onion garden.

After climbing the wall to about a foot height, it fell on the ground. It has tried to climb the wall again, and it has climbed to my eye height. Then it has paused and rested for some time but when it started moving again, it slipped and fell on the ground.

I do not know if bat feels pain but it did not move for a moment… but after the moment, it has started climbing the wall again. Then fell again. The little creature has repeated this several times.

I was getting a tired of watching it fall, I went inside the house.

While I was fixing dinner, I still saw the creature on the wall but I saw less movement.

On the next day, I looked out in the backyard, I did not see the bat anymore. I was wondering where it went but after my breakfast, I went out to my onion garden where the bat may have fell again.

After observing the area for some time, I saw the bat hanging upside down at the edge of a plastic pot. I don’t know if I was being too loud or if the sun was too bright but it started moving and hid it’s head under the onion leaf.

Still, I did not think it’s a pleasant creature to look at but I started growing attachment to this little creature… it has round ears that make it look a little like a mouse. It has a sharp little tail. It’s foot have some fingers but hands have a single nail that can be used to hook on the wall…

I did not see what it eats or if it eats anything special but I saw a plenty of leaves and some insects so I thought it can survive just fine in my little onion garden.

I may have been wrong…

When I came back from errands in town, I saw it lying on the onion pot. I did not see it moving… I picked a stick and poked the little bat gently but there was. No response…

I did not know what I should do but I thought maybe it was just dehydrated under the sun so I watered around him but nothing…

I have regretted I should have googled what baby bat feeds on but it was too late. I have removed the body from the pot and placed it on the soil to see if there is any sign of life but I saw none at all. It was already just a little piece of corpse.

I dug a little bit of soil next to the onion garden and buried him. There was nothing else but the his body… I wanted to put something next to his body so that he wouldn’t feel so much loneliness but i could not think of anything he would like.

I wonder… how did he even end up in our backyard? Was he left alone by his parents? Was he a messenger from the great being to me? Anyways, he must have been lonely and scared…

I could have used the technology to search how I could save him but instead, I was using the technology to take video clips of him suffering… too late now but I hope I won’t make the same mistake. Great power comes with great responsibility…

I only wish the onions in my garden has gave him some comfort and cheered him, at least…