beach chick Posted April 10, 2011 Share Posted April 10, 2011 it's official - summer's on its way, I've just seen my first bats of the year tonight I love seeing them, they are so silent and swooping and so beautiful. I think they live under the peg tiles on the flat fronted bits of our house. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jools Posted April 10, 2011 Share Posted April 10, 2011 They are wonderful aren't they! I saw my first one of the year a couple of weeks ago and there are several out hunting when I shut the chooks up in the evening. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Snowy Posted April 10, 2011 Share Posted April 10, 2011 Oh yes, I saw one the other evening when I went out to shut up the hens! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ain't Nobody Here Posted April 10, 2011 Share Posted April 10, 2011 I bought OH a batbox for his birthday in February. Not seen a single bat yet . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
beach chick Posted April 11, 2011 Author Share Posted April 11, 2011 we've got a batbox ANH - but dont think it has ever been used!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lillybettybabs Posted April 11, 2011 Share Posted April 11, 2011 I'm unsure but i think we have bats living in in a corner of our house, just under the guttering there's greyish white stains on the brick work, not sign of a birds nest. We do see bats flying around. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LuckyChickenLover- Posted April 11, 2011 Share Posted April 11, 2011 Lucky you! I have never seen a bat (apart from in zoos!) My friend once found three baby bats on the floor in his living room. He phoned up the RSPCA and followed their advice to feed them milk, but unfortunately they all died . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eggasperated Posted April 11, 2011 Share Posted April 11, 2011 Unfortunately one of my cats has caught and killed a couple of bats in the last week, I think they are the tiny pipistrelle kind. She's seems to be catching them somewhere up the road then bringing them back as trophies . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Speckled Hen Posted April 13, 2011 Share Posted April 13, 2011 We have them nesting here in the house. One day last summer one got into the bedroom. We managed to shepherd it out but not before it flew round and round our heads for a while. Silently and without hitting us at all......not like a trapped bird......... It alighted on the curtains and I managed to gently pick it up. Wonderful. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Purplemaniacs Posted April 14, 2011 Share Posted April 14, 2011 We get a lot of bats arounds here. Recently we had a couple in our school hall which caused a great deal of excitment amoungst the staff and the children, I have to say a great deal of fear from some too. Luckily one bat was caught and the other flew out of the cloakroom at home time after a few days in the hall. Chrissie Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Martin B Posted April 14, 2011 Share Posted April 14, 2011 I love love love bats! Last year somebody in our town found one on a window ledge, lifeless and not moving. We scooped it up in a box and put it in the dark to give it some time to recoup itself. Later that day at about midnight I went to release and the thing did not want to budge one bit. I was outside for about an hour and I still had a bat in a box!! I tried lots of different release sites and I had almost given up. I went in to the church yard and the bat flew out straight away. It was very eerie but very inspiring. A sort of religious experience, I wish I could describe the feeling. Not far from where I live is a nature reserve and they did a bat walk last year. I missed it but will be going this year if they do another. We have bats flying over our garden every night! Martin Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lewis Posted April 15, 2011 Share Posted April 15, 2011 We have the odd bat in the garden but not many! Got something over 100 at the zoo Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Dogmother Posted April 15, 2011 Share Posted April 15, 2011 We get lots in the park down our road - they have bat boxes and do evening bat walks in the summer. Plenty in our back garden too, but I don't think they are nesting in the house as we don't have eaves. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Seagazer Posted April 17, 2011 Share Posted April 17, 2011 I love sitting in the garden on a summer's evening and watching the bats swooping around. We've only noticed them in the last couple of years. There is a wood near us so I'm not sure if they sleep there. We were jealous of my sister as she has lots that visit her garden down at the coast but now we have our own (sort of) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
