Bat House Forum

[flyin-lowe]

I was doing some looking around on youtube today and came across this video. It is either a fake or some type of optical illusion. The bat house doesn't look that big but there are what appears to be thousands of bats coming out. It almost looks like a high quality animation. I am on a laptop and for some reason when I try to go full screen it won't play (part of the reason I thought it was fake.) The other reason is that there are only 2 comments and one of the comments is flagged as spam. If it is real how big is this house really to hold this many bats?

I hope this isn't something obviously stupid, but be easy on me I am a NEWBIE!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UCWWu6ka ... re=related

[Terry Lobdell]

I would say it's real.........probably freetails.........the bat houses there are also probably bigger than they appear on the video.......

[po boy]

There are two houses back to back. No telling how large they are, they appear to be very large..

Here is another video by the same person.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D2qoBFfQ ... re=related

[Dave M]

Cool videos, amazing stuff. I was planning to have a large bat house at the top of a post, and a smaller house a few feet beneath it. It looks like the bats pour out of the houses and drop vertically for a while before they flare off sideways. Is it a bad idea to mount one house beneath another, or is there a certain distance I should keep between them? The roof of the smaller house will be about 12" x 26" by the way.

[flyin-lowe]

Like I said if it is real it is a bit of an illusion, how bid do you think that house is? It doesn't look big enough to hold that many bats.