Kate According to internet we can hear the squeak of young bats. So the ones flying around, must be young!!!Will be keeping a look out tonight and making sure they are bats I'm hearing.
Last week we was having some decorating done, and the loft hatch was left out as it was being painted. Later on in the basin in the bathroom was a very tiny bat in the plug hole. We did not know what to do with it so we put it out of the window and it flew off hopefully we did right
Thanks for the reminder. Last year, when we first arrived at our 10 year neglected rural garden, plenty of bats zooming overhead at dusk. But I don't recall them this year...I must do more homework on bats on whether I have done anything to steer them away.
lucky for us we have a large garden and regularly watch them swooping and flying round. Unfortunately for our next door neighbours they have bats in their flat roof,we watch them filing out at dusk and have counted 24 in one go(there was more) and wonder what on earth can be done with them, they know they cant be moved whilst they have young but then what? They hear them scratching and squeaking prior to them coming out, any suggestions?
Great to hear how many people have bats as regular visitors and how popular they are. We see them flying across our back garden many evenings in the season even though we live on a housing estate. There are large ones and smaller ones. We have heard their squeak when they fly over the skylight in the attic bedroom. They are wonderful creatures.
When the person I live with was much younger, she lived in Minnesota. There was a huge bat colony in the attic. Her parents didn't like the bats, and tried to block all holes in the eaves, so that they couldn't get back into the house after their night's foraging. Her father worked all day to close up the holes, and then fitted a one-way vent (from a clothes dryer) to the place where they usually exited.
As dusk fell, her family sat in the car with the lights turned onto the roof, and counted the bats coming out through the one-way vent. There were dozens. But the next night, the bats all came out again through the one-way flap, as they had managed to find a way back in at dawn. The Bat Wars went on for weeks, with harsher and harsher methods. At one point, the bats started coming into the house through the heating grids in the floors. No-one much liked that. The story ended badly for the bats. In an interesting side note: the bats had been in residence for decades, and their gauno had piled up in the attic. My friend’s mother, who was a keen organic gardener, was very happy with this source of free fertiliser.
We also watch the bats in our back garden in an evening, have put up a bat box on the garage wall and hope they will take up residence there. Will take note of the planting help though, thanks
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i didnt think human ears could hear the noise of bats as its to high pitched....however i maybe wrong.
According to internet we can hear the squeak of young bats. So the ones flying around, must be young!!!Will be keeping a look out tonight and making sure they are bats I'm hearing.
Lazygardener - I thought only young humans could hear the sound of bats, maybe you just have exceptional hearing?? How exciting.
safla - if you call the National Bat Helpline on the number above they might be able to advise you.
Kate
As dusk fell, her family sat in the car with the lights turned onto the roof, and counted the bats coming out through the one-way vent. There were dozens. But the next night, the bats all came out again through the one-way flap, as they had managed to find a way back in at dawn. The Bat Wars went on for weeks, with harsher and harsher methods. At one point, the bats started coming into the house through the heating grids in the floors. No-one much liked that. The story ended badly for the bats. In an interesting side note: the bats had been in residence for decades, and their gauno had piled up in the attic. My friend’s mother, who was a keen organic gardener, was very happy with this source of free fertiliser.