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24 bats out of our bat house last night. (Original Post) RiffRandell Mar 2012 OP
Cool. I want a bat house. Denninmi Mar 2012 #1
They are awesome. RiffRandell Mar 2012 #3
Aren't they neat? pipi_k Mar 2012 #2
Awww.. so glad! RiffRandell Mar 2012 #4
Cool. I love bats geardaddy Mar 2012 #5
Congratulations on having so many in your box! livetohike Mar 2012 #6
which one is Michele?? Angry Dragon Mar 2012 #7

RiffRandell

(5,909 posts)
3. They are awesome.
Tue Mar 20, 2012, 12:54 PM
Mar 2012

Bats are so good for the environment, and they have that weird virus that is killing them off. Great investment. I bought 2 for x-mas presents last year. The first year we bought ours we put it up in early spring and had bats by early summer. Thanks!

pipi_k

(21,020 posts)
2. Aren't they neat?
Tue Mar 20, 2012, 12:52 PM
Mar 2012

The first couple of years we lived here in the woods, we could hardly go outside in summer because of the mosquitoes, many of which even found their way into the house through the doggy door.

Then we got bat houses...one of them came from the Bat Conservation place.

I'm always excited when we see the bat poo in the spring. It means they're back, and we can go outside without fear of being eaten alive.

We had a few scary years here with that white-nose disease, but the population seems to be coming back.

Bats!!!

RiffRandell

(5,909 posts)
4. Awww.. so glad!
Tue Mar 20, 2012, 12:59 PM
Mar 2012

Great organization! I know...we have guano on the side of our house underneath the bat house, but so what? You can't even notice unless you're close and my husband and I both don't even want to hose it off. We don't want to do anything to disturb them!

Thanks for helping bats! They need it, and I hate mosquitoes!

livetohike

(22,163 posts)
6. Congratulations on having so many in your box!
Tue Mar 20, 2012, 02:24 PM
Mar 2012

We put a bat box up four years ago and the most we've seen is 2 . A state wildlife biologist brought us the box and told us the best place to erect it and we turn in our report yearly. I hope we have at least two this year.

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