Bat House Forum

[cloudman75]

I checked my new large bat house tonight and saw the smallest bat I have ever seen or a large bug? I tried several snapshots to get a closer photo and the thing flew out. It looked like a very tiny bat. The chamber spacing it was using is 3/4 inches. This little bat did not take up much space. That's the risk one takes using a flash several times, it can drive a bat away. Take a look in the bottom chamber about the center of the shot.. This may be my first bat in the new house. I still have a few freetails and some little browns, and three big browns at times. What do you think?

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Frank

[William Bagwell]

Frank, do you still have the raw picture(s) from your camera? If so please send me a copy to the email in my profile. Don't worry about size, think my limit is at least 25 MB.

I can not tell one way or the other as to exactly what it is and trying to enlarge what you posted is no help.
William

[cloudman75]

William,
I put the photo on Kodak Easyshare and deleted it from my camera. I went back out a short while ago with my 18 volt Dewalt lamp and it is gone for sure.
It blows up a little more on Easyshare and looks like a bat but that's what my mind wants me to see LOL. I want these bats to leave so I can finish my hollow pole mount, but with the nice weather they are just hanging around being inactive for the most part.


Frank

[Joe Spencer]

Looks like a bat to me. At this size could it be a pipistrelle?