A friend suggested I get a bat box. A bat box is like a bird house. I kinda like that idea. I don't really want to hurt the bat. I just want it to move on. We laughed at the bat box idea. It's such a metaphor for my life. While others have pretty bird houses or a hummingbird feeder. Only I would be in the minority and own a bat box!!
Monday, December 13, 2010
Mr. (or Mrs) Swoop & Poop
Remember my BATTY (click on Batty) post a few weeks ago? He's still 'hanging' around at night. We left the porch light on in hopes he would avoid the area. It helped to keep him away, temporarily. But soon as that light was off, he would find his way back. It's kinda creepy to think he was lurking out there while we were outside with the dog, just waiting for his opportunity to go to bed in our back porch. LOL. The evidence of his returning is in the increasing levels of bat guano on my walls. Ick! This is a screened in back porch that we use for storage. It has a arch way where a door should be. It's not as simple as putting up a door. And it's not as simple as using a garden hose to clean off the mess either. Bat guano is not solid . Yes, he eats bugs. I agree that is a good thing. However, I would prefer he eat the bugs and poop the remains somewhere other than my back porch!! I don't mind the bats in the area. I see them at twilight and hear them fly over head and protest my being outside with the dog. It is MY back porch for pity sake, not his! I do not like opening the door and having him swoop at me trying to escape. I don't want him flying in my garage either. Or worse yet, getting in my house. I also don't want them 'painting' my white walls with green guano. My husband has been sick so he has not felt like searching for netting or screening and he has not felt like dealing with it. I totally understand. I could have done it myself but leaving the light on was a quick fix. This morning I woke to more guano on my bathroom window. It was such a lovely (NOT) sight. LOL. My hubby is off to the hardware store today to get what we need to cover up our open doorway.
A friend suggested I get a bat box. A bat box is like a bird house. I kinda like that idea. I don't really want to hurt the bat. I just want it to move on. We laughed at the bat box idea. It's such a metaphor for my life. While others have pretty bird houses or a hummingbird feeder. Only I would be in the minority and own a bat box!!
A friend suggested I get a bat box. A bat box is like a bird house. I kinda like that idea. I don't really want to hurt the bat. I just want it to move on. We laughed at the bat box idea. It's such a metaphor for my life. While others have pretty bird houses or a hummingbird feeder. Only I would be in the minority and own a bat box!!
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Oh man, I didn't think of all the mess he would be leaving, what a bummer. I do hope that you can get that hole covered up soon, do one last cleaning and be done with it. :)
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I would think he was starting to be a bother too. A bat box would be interesting though!
ReplyDeleteWe once moved in to a house that already had a bat box. The former owners had a huge garden and wanted the guano, which is an excellent fertilizer. How they harvested it from a bat box that was on a 20 foot tall pole, I don't have a clue. I don't remember ever seeing a bat in the year that we lived there. I do remember the squirrel that moved in. She would leap from the box to the ground, switching her tail for balance as she free fell. :-)
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