Wednesday, December 10, 2008

BAT HOUSE

This afternoon I battled BATS. While cleaning up the garage and taking things into the attic I saw that the BATS were back. I removed 5 hibernating bats last week from the roof vent--- well I actually relocated them. Maybe they flew back to 'their' nest. Being so warm (it was 72 deg. today) I only caught one. The other 4 flew away....scared the bananas out of me at the top of the 14 foot ladder, no less.

First: Remove the bat poop. (this is the smelliest poop I ever smelled and being so close - ewwee!)

Second: Paint.

Third: Cover the outside with window screen. My staple gun was purchased in 1989 from Coast-to-Coast Hardware (I know because I write the purchase date on things) and it did not work well atop of the ladder. Santa- I need a new one. Anyone know how to build a bat house?

3 comments:

Penny said...

ha!

Kathy said...

www.batconservation.org/content/Bathouseimportance.html

Unknown said...

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