Bats-Safely remove them from your belfry

[glenn kangiser]

Here is an interesting article on how to safely remove bats from your house without hurting them.

http://www.batcon.org/home/default.asp

Note - link changed but site is there - check it out.

[Daddymem]

We always knew you hat bats in your belfry Glenn...

[glenn kangiser]

Well, sorry to say but I really look stupid walking around with these two plastic pipes and old cut off silk pantyhose legs sticking out of my ears. :-/

[Shelley]

Gosh, I don't even have a belfry

Reminds me of another project.  He's going to kill me.  No cliffs, no caves.  Think I need a bat house.

Or, something for swallows.  We have swallows swooping.  Don't know where they nest.  Prefer the rock cliffs.  Maybe over toward the mtns.

[glenn kangiser]

Bats are good-  they, according to the article eat 1200 mosquitoes per hour.  I used to sit in the hot spring in the desert at night and the bats would swoop in for a drink of water -- guess I added just the right flavor to it  

I wanted to make a bat house also to encourage them.  Nice to have them as natural bug killers and they are much more entertaining and educational than TV.  

[tjm73]

As a child I was afraid of bats.  As an educated adult I think they are cool little creatures that need homes so they can eat all the West Nile carrying mosquitos they can.

When I have my own property I plan to build and erect some bat houses.  Here's a few links to bat house plans.

http://www.npca.org/wildlife_protection/wildlife_facts/bats/bat_house.asp

http://lancaster.unl.edu/enviro/pest/factsheets/265-95.htm

http://www.batcon.org/bhra/economyhouse.html

[firefox]

New link for http://lancaster.unl.edu/enviro/pest/factsheets/265-95.htm

http://lancaster.unl.edu/pest/bats.shtml

[glenn kangiser]

They were fun to watch as they dipped into the warm springs for a quick drink at Saline Valley, while having a good soak and shooting the bull about all sorts of highly intellectual subjects.

[Alasdair]

holidaying on the continent once I noticed that bats were hanging around the lamp posts catching the insects that were attracted to the light - unfortunately for them a local owl had learned the same thing about the bats! was amazing to watch this thing swoop out of the dark and catch bats in mid flight!

[MikeT]

This past weekend, my family was busy helping me put up tar paper on our beach house project.  They started working on a section that wasn't completed the previous weekend.  All of a sudden I heard my wife scream.

She almost hit a bat with the tacker hammer.  The bat was taking shelter in a small pocket of the tar paper that hadn't been completely secured. 

At the bottom of the pocket there was even a bit of guano! 

I do like the idea of a bat house....

mt

[glenn kangiser]

Bats are welcome around here.  Great to have someone working on the mosquitoes.