Here are two local critter stories of note. In Olympia, Washington a colony of several thousand bats takes wing every night to feed on insects. All females, they’re nesting with their young underneath a pier. Volunteers have been tallying the number of bats who leave their manmade home at night. In late summer the bats will scatter to locations unknown. Over in Cheney, a little east of Spokane, four trumpeter swans hatched over Father’s Day weekend at the Turnbull National Wildlife Refuge. Their dad, a seasoned veteran of the lake, was thought to be too old to become a father as he’s estimated to be 33-46 years old. His last batch of cygnets was in 1987 and after his original mate was killed his subsequent companions did not produce. But he and his latest mate are swimming happily with their new brood.