Posted on 12/10/2010 12:25:43 PM PST by RadiationRomeo
LOL! That was my thought as well. :)
Always ask about an agency's policies when calling for help. Don't wait until they're at your door.
Yes, just leave the bat on the OSB board and move the whole board to that protected area in your barn. The bat will be OK.
If you wake it up by knocking it off the board, it probably won’t be able to re-enter a hibernative state and will probably die.
Helpful link at #12 and some interesting tips and stories. Have a good weekend, everyone
Good gouge, thanks!! Instructions said 20’ up on a clear (no limbs around) tree, on the south side. Amazing. First relatively warm day, my neighbor will come over with his 20’ stepladder for beers/chicken. How high up on the building is best?
I recommend a quick ‘deep fry’ and basted afterwards with a quick daub of Frank’s “You can put that shit on anything!”
The tree the bat house is on is next to a marshy area where there is no shortage of mosquitos, so I figured that would be a good area. They would also be safe from predators there - but, previous post says trees don’t work as well as buildings. Anyhow, thanks for the ideas.
LOL! We love our bats here in Florida. They eat their weight in mosquitoes and bugs every day. Ugly little suckers though! Carry on ;D!
I almost hate to ask, but how do you plan to get the bat out of the attic in the spring?
a spike on a pole and a pail of water........
Scientific and kind of cool for a 12 year old. You’d have chased Leonardo out of town for doing dissections.
I was stationed in Panama during the army and the the barracks on my post had the rounded porceline shingles where the bats would fly into when the sun came up in the morning. In the evening as the sun was going down, they would leave their sleeping spots and swarm out of the roof overhangs by the tens of thousands.........It was cool to watch them.
You can't really appreciate the number of bats that inhabit the tropics until you see them flying off at twilight. And once its dark you can't see them but just hear faint chirps in the air above you.........
Yah, bats and spiders and snakes. The world would be filled with pests without them.
There is also a bridge in Austin, and an abandoned railroad tunnel between Comfort and Frederickburg that are big bat habitats.
I was commissioning some equipment in Port Arthur in ‘89. Every morning before sunrise the purple martins, bats, and dragonflies would be swarming, devouring mosquitoes.
Yes, the evenings are quite a scene here too especially during the rainy season. Funny how their little radars keep them from buzzing your head MOST of the time ;D!
If the bat survives then it will leave through the attic vents in the spring. Hopefully everything will turn out OK.
Your self adulation is almost as repugnant as your tearing the wings off flies thriwing cats off a roof smashing bats with a golfclub behavior.
Tell me about it. My 5 year old grand daughter picked up a dead bat on her school playground . She thought it was a Halloween decoration. Not. it was a dead bat and testing confirmed rabies. Poor kid went through weeks of shots. She was a real trouper. They’re not as bad as they were years ago.
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