Bat Watching
Last year we noticed that we had bats roosting in the small space above the children’s room. We counted about 20 at most emerging for the night’s feeding. It seemed to be a short lived roost and they moved on after a week or two. So when we heard the telltale chatter and saw bat poo on the back step we knew our temporary residents had returned for a second year. It would seem they liked it so much that they told their friends as we counted 80 emerging in the space of just half an hour. We have some friends who can identify bats but sadly they were away so we will have to wait until next to find out exactly who is roosting in our rafters. Let’s hope they don’t increase their numbers four fold again, I can’t imagine the mess from 320 bats!
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Great pictures. Do you know the book ‘Bat Loves the Night’? Great read for kids.
Oh wow! I would love to see that.
AMAZING! I’m quite jealous – though not of your guano collection :)
@ Cathy – snapped one off eBay, thank you, Milla loves it.
@ Solveig – come down next summer, you can sit out of the ‘drop zone’ :)
@ Vonnie – guano? Am I going to have to look that up?
We had a similar experience in our London flat – except we had 5000 honey bees nesting in the ventilation grill that exited in our bedroom!! I was pregnant at the time, and I’m actually allergic to bees, so we had to get rid of them. We tried to get them and the honey comb humanely removed by a bee keeper, but he couldn’t get far enough into the grill. After two failed attempts to smoke them out, they eventually had to be poisoned, which I still feel really guilty about!!!
Oh my gosh – that must have been so worrying!