Barn Bat

[jaydee325]

I put up a bat house last Sunday. I was getting ready to report disappointment that it had not yet been discovered. However, I just went out and looked and saw a bat inside the bat house!

Don't know if it is the one pooping in the barn, but I hope it is so I can quit cleaning up after it.

Hope lots if friends get invited too.

 

[Jstpssng]

Now that this mystery is solved, perhaps you can figure out what's causing the holes in the floor of Check's barn. When you solve that, we'll move onto serious questions; Pallets!

 

[goeduck]

I put up a bat house last Sunday. I was getting ready to report disappointment that it had not yet been discovered. However, I just went out and looked and saw a bat inside the bat house!

Don't know if it is the one pooping in the barn, but I hope it is so I can quit cleaning up after it.

Hope lots if friends get invited too.

Do you have a picture you can post?

 

[oosik]

So - - around 1am I have this dream. Somebody is washing my face. It's my puppy - Brownie - he's licking to let me know it's "outside" time.

I open the door and - immediately - a bat flies into the house. No need to get excited. The bat does not want to be "in" any more than I want him in. So we sit - wait - watch. It took the bat about ten minuets and a couple dozen times around the living room. He finally found the open door and made his exit.

I may have been lucky. While we waited several bats flew past the open door. Busy night for the bats and all flying bugs.

 

[jaydee325]

Do you have a picture you can post?

I can’t get a picture that the bat shows up. Too dark up inside.

 

[oosik]

jaydee325 - It won't take long. If you built what they like and located it well - there will be a "house full" before cold wx sets in. If they are anything like my little bats - they come back to the same cubby hole each year. It's been nine years now - I always have a couple dozen or more returning each year.

 

[jaydee325]

I purchased the bat house (not big on carpentry projects) but it is to Batcon (batcon.org) specs. I also installed per Batcon recommendations.

 

[oosik]

That looks like a good location. Up nice and high. The "unusual" construction discourages unwanted intruders. Pretty hard for a cat to hang on to the pole with three feet and dig into that bat house with the fourth paw. Just be certain that there is a place where they can get water. Small saucer sled or the like - kept full of water. Flush out every couple days to prevent mosquito hatchings.

Besides - a bevy of bats busting out of that house would knock any cat off the pole.

 

[goeduck]

I can’t get a picture that the bat shows up. Too dark up inside.

Not of the bat, of the bathouse :laughing:

 

[goeduck]

Just be certain that there is a place where they can get water. Small saucer sled or the like - kept full of water. Flush out every couple days to prevent mosquito

There is a freshwater creek about a half mile down the beach. Do I need to keep water on hand for them ?? :hissyfit: :hissyfit: