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Thread #143626   Message #3316354
Posted By: JohnInKansas
02-Mar-12 - 07:23 PM
Thread Name: BS: Bobert's Bat Eviction Completed!!!
Subject: RE: BS: Bobert's Bat Eviction Completed!!!
With an evicted crowd close at hand, you may get some renters in your new bat boxes more quickly than usual; but the advisors in my area say they're like wrens, and a new house needs to "weather" for a couple of years before it's likely to get occupied.

This is not to suggest that you won't have better results than most, but more to the point of "don't give up too soon" if they don't move immediately. And I'm sure we'd be interested in progress reports, so put the "bat watch" in your subject list for later.

I've considered putting up a couple of boxes, to see if they'd help to control the mosquitoes from the open sewer out back, but there's a definite lack of structures tall enough. And I have to check my hankie before I crawl up in the bed of my p'up truck in case I get a nose bleed from the altitude, and my tummy gets queasy on about the third step on my fairly sturdy stepladder. (Although I'm quite comfortable resting on the second step after the exertion of climbing clear up to there.)

John