Bat House Forum

[Terry Lobdell]

Counted at least 20 bats in 6 houses tonight.........mostly big brown..........warm and humid with light rain.........I'm hoping now that winter is over for good this year! I had about 12 big browns torpid for almost 2 weeks!

[Joe Spencer]

Nothing in my bat houses yet.  Though I did see Big Brown's foraging in my yard and area the last 2 warm night's.  A cold spell has moved in and is staying for a while so I don't expect any bats in my houses until probably may sometime. Thanks for the update Terry.

[LarryH]

I put up a new, small nursery house on the south end of the barn the week before we left for our trip, and the next evening I saw a bat hanging on the bottom of it.  The next day I looked up in the house, and saw 2 bats in there.  I was surprised that they took to it so soon.  It is about 50 feet away from the main bat houses, but it is a lot lower -- it is only about 14' off the ground, whereas the main houses are 21' high.  It was nice to seem them in the house before we left, though.  I had about 50 bats -- I didn't get an exact count when the emerged, because they came out so fast -- but I guessed that there were about 50 of them between the two houses.  By the time we get back home in mid-May, they will be getting ready to start having their babies.

 

[Terry Lobdell]

That is a nice start Larry! I have about 20 big browns and about 10 little browns right now........