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More bats 🦇 please!

debs64debs64 Posts: 5,184
in Wildlife gardening
Hi all sorry if this has been asked before but any tips on encouraging bats? I live in the suburbs near Birmingham and so was surprised to see 2 bats flying around my garden last night! 
Lovely creatures, any advice on keeping them happy? 

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  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    edited April 2019
    Fill your garden with plants that are pollinated by nightflying insects ... the ones that give out their scent in the evening ... we have lots of honeysuckle and Sweet Rocket ... we also have a large ash tree which attracts lots of types of chafers flying around them in the summer evenings.. the bats love them ... we’re so lucky as we have a large roost of several species of bats close to our house ... it’s a protected SSSI in old chalk workings.  



    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • debs64debs64 Posts: 5,184
    Thanks MU and dove, I am planning a night scented seating area so that will help and also a couple of water features I am hoping will attract insects. I won’t risk a bat box as have cats. Thanks again. 
  • raisingirlraisingirl Posts: 7,093
    Try to eliminate or at least limit lights outside, if you can. Not much you can do about street lights, but if you can avoid, or at least shield, security lights etc in your own garden, it'll be a help  :)
    Gardening on the edge of Exmoor, in Devon

    “It's still magic even if you know how it's done.” 
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