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:

 

[oosik]

I don't know on the water. You would think they would travel half a mile for a drink. They go further than that for a bug. I don't know how they keep from getting DIZZY. They race around the house all night long. Maybe at midnight they reverse direction. Bugs must be attracted to the lights shining out the house windows.

Stand out on the porch at this time of night - it's like being strafed by a squadron of tiny jets.

 

[jaydee325]

The Batcon website suggests that a large water source should be within 1/4 mile of the bat house.

Bat Houses

Elsewhere on the website it also indicates that bats swoop for a drink so a relatively still lake, pond or slow stream with minimal obstruction too swooping is desirable.

We've determined that a group of bats is called a Colony.

What is a group of bats sometimes called that are in flight? (the first responder with the correct answer wins the accolades and admiration of the members following this thread!! :thumbsup

I don't know on the water. You would think they would travel half a mile for a drink. They go further than that for a bug. I don't know how they keep from getting DIZZY. They race around the house all night long. Maybe at midnight they reverse direction. Bugs must be attracted to the lights shining out the house windows.

Stand out on the porch at this time of night - it's like being strafed by a squadron of tiny jets.

 

[Jstpssng]

The Batcon website suggests that a large water source should be within 1/4 mile of the bat house.

Bat Houses

Elsewhere on the website it also indicates that bats swoop for a drink so a relatively still lake, pond or slow stream with minimal obstruction too swooping is desirable.

We've determined that a group of bats is called a Colony.

What is a group of bats sometimes called that are in flight? (the first responder with the correct answer without using Google wins the accolades and admiration of the members following this thread!! :thumbsup

You had a mistake, but I fixed it. ( I now know what it’s called but never would have guessed it.)

 

[oosik]

I had to look it up. I will bet that nobody can guess correctly. Somebody will have to know - nobody will ever guess.

 

[jaydee325]

You had a mistake, but I fixed it. ( I now know what it痴 called but never would have guessed it.)

Thanks. Thought afterword about adding not to look it up. I was surprised when I ran across it!

 

[goeduck]

Elsewhere on the website it also indicates that bats swoop for a drink so a relatively still lake, pond or slow stream with minimal obstruction too swooping is desirable.

Hhmm, the stream a half mile away (maybe 1/3) is a small stream. I would hope they could land and drink, probably not a chance at swooping unless they like saltwater.