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| Lou@GoForIt.net 2005-07-24, 9:11 pm |
| Friend came back from vacation to a call from alarm service.
When she got home she found a "bird" making bump noises in her house, at
night.
I think it is a bat.
Local cops suggested she use a broom to help it leave. Any other ideas?
TIA
Lou
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| G Henslee 2005-07-24, 9:11 pm |
| Lou@GoForIt.net wrote:
> Friend came back from vacation to a call from alarm service.
> When she got home she found a "bird" making bump noises in her house, at
> night.
> I think it is a bat.
>
> Local cops suggested she use a broom to help it leave. Any other ideas?
>
> TIA
>
> Lou
>
Louisville Slugger, or learn to live with the ole bat...
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| Edwin Pawlowski 2005-07-24, 9:11 pm |
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<Lou@GoForIt.net> wrote in message news:42E3B8EC.C9922550@optonline.net...
> Friend came back from vacation to a call from alarm service.
> When she got home she found a "bird" making bump noises in her house, at
> night.
> I think it is a bat.
>
> Local cops suggested she use a broom to help it leave. Any other ideas?
>
> TIA
If you are fortunate, the broom may help, but I thing you'd do better trying
to catch it than shoo it. I was able to know down a bat using a pot lid.
Tennis racket may be good too. This was in the hallway at 2:00 AM. Doors
open, but made no difference. Once knocked down, I was able to trap it in
the pot and release it outside.
VERY IMPORTANT. Find and seal the entrance or it will come back.
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| tbasc@bellsouth.net 2005-07-24, 9:11 pm |
| Our standard is an old tennis racket.
It's relatively "transparent" to bat radar.
No need to knock it down.
Don't wave it around.
Move the racket into bat flight path quickly.
The bat often will hang from the racket and can be carried outside.
They are fascinating animals and beneficial to the environment, eating
insects.
TB
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| G Henslee 2005-07-24, 9:11 pm |
| tbasc@bellsouth.net wrote:
> The bat often will hang from the racket and can be carried outside.
>
> They are fascinating animals and beneficial to the environment, eating
> insects.
> TB
>
That's what they say about Kanter. I dunno. Jury's still out on that one...
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| deans@wdeans.com 2005-07-24, 9:11 pm |
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This was our second year for collecting data on bat houses installed in
conjunction with exclusion. Again, the occupancy rate was very high,
89% (73 of 82), indicating their usefulness as a management tool.
Because displaced bats need new homes, it makes sense to install bat
houses in advance where possible to avoid "passing the problem on to
the neighbors." For more information about exclusion, please contact
BCI. A new "Bats in Buildings" booklet and Internet-based document
with updated instructions will soon be available (see
www.batcon.org/binb). The large number of houses with maternity or
winter use is encouraging (Table 1). Bats either overwintered or used
houses all year in California,
http://www.batcon.org/bhresearcher/bv9n1-3.html
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| Oscar_Lives 2005-07-24, 9:11 pm |
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<Lou@GoForIt.net> wrote in message news:42E3B8EC.C9922550@optonline.net...
> Friend came back from vacation to a call from alarm service.
> When she got home she found a "bird" making bump noises in her house, at
> night.
> I think it is a bat.
>
> Local cops suggested she use a broom to help it leave. Any other ideas?
>
> TIA
>
> Lou
Call Ozzy Osborne. He eats the damn things.
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| Joseph Meehan 2005-07-24, 9:11 pm |
| tbasc@bellsouth.net wrote:
> Our standard is an old tennis racket.
> It's relatively "transparent" to bat radar.
> No need to knock it down.
> Don't wave it around.
> Move the racket into bat flight path quickly.
> The bat often will hang from the racket and can be carried outside.
>
> They are fascinating animals and beneficial to the environment, eating
> insects.
> TB
I have only had one inside and the tennis racket worked. It got in by
accident and it seemed happy to be outside.
My son had one that took up residence between the storm window and the
inside window of his bedroom. They keep each other company for about a
year. Nice pet, you don't need to feed it and it eat stuff you don't want
around.
--
Joseph Meehan
Dia duit
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| Tom O'Connor 2005-07-24, 9:11 pm |
| A fishing net works well, especially at 2 AM Tom
..
> Friend came back from vacation to a call from alarm service.
> When she got home she found a "bird" making bump noises in her house, at
> night.
> I think it is a bat.
>
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| ~^Johnny^~ 2005-07-24, 9:12 pm |
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On Sun, 24 Jul 2005 11:51:08 -0400, Lou@GoForIt.net wrote:
>Friend came back from vacation to a call from alarm service.
>When she got home she found a "bird" making bump noises in her
>house, at night.
>I think it is a bat.
>
>Local cops suggested she use a broom to help it leave. Any other
>ideas?
She needs to put the screens back in her windoes.
The same screens, which heep out the bugs that attract the bats in
the first place, will also keep the bats out.
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wide-open at throttle dot info
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| ~^Johnny^~ 2005-07-24, 9:12 pm |
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On Sun, 24 Jul 2005 18:11:25 GMT, "Joseph Meehan"
<sligojoe_Spamno@hotmail.com> wrote:
> My son had one that took up residence between the storm window
> and the
>inside window of his bedroom. They keep each other company for
>about a year. Nice pet, you don't need to feed it and it eat stuff
>you don't want around.
Bats never bothered me, either.
I have been awakened before, from the sound of a bat whizzing
through the loft where I was bunked, in the middle of the night. It
didn't faze me.
I just went back to sleep. And at least bats are far less annoying
than most birds who find their way indoors.
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> Bats never bothered me, either.
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> I have been awakened before, from the sound of a bat whizzing
> through the loft where I was bunked, in the middle of the night. It
> didn't faze me.
> I just went back to sleep. And at least bats are far less annoying
> than most birds who find their way indoors.
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unless they are vampire bats.
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| Suzie-Q 2005-07-25, 6:21 am |
| In article <42E3B8EC.C9922550@optonline.net>, Lou@GoForIt.net wrote:
-> Friend came back from vacation to a call from alarm service.
-> When she got home she found a "bird" making bump noises in her house, at
-> night.
-> I think it is a bat.
->
-> Local cops suggested she use a broom to help it leave. Any other ideas?
We used to get several bats a year in the old Wal-Mart store
here in town. (We have a new SuperCenter now.)
I had a very heavy-weight pair of leather gloves I kept in my
locker for their visits. I'd just wait until they landed
somewhere, approach them very slowly, grab onto them, hold them
securely, and carry them outside to release them.
Bats are actually a protected species in a lot of places, and
are very beneficial because they eat so many insects -- especially
mosquitoes -- each night.
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