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Post by johnc on Feb 24, 2021 8:23:08 GMT
My daughter doesn't really like spiders or anything else creepy crawly. Last night we had a bit of a scream as a largish long legged spider walked across the living room. I caught it, opened the front door, took a couple of steps out and put it in the garden. I then returned to the sofa.
5 minutes later my daughter screams "Dad there's a bird in the house". I looked up and there was a poor wee bat flying around confused. Eventually it flew on to the corner of a picture frame and just hung on - they are beautiful wee creatures. I managed to lift the picture off the wall, open the patio doors and take it outside. I lowered it to the garden table and persuaded it to get on to the table after which it flew off into the night.
We then had the debate about how it got in to the house. Did it sneak past me when I put the spider out or did it maybe come down the chimney? I checked all the doors and windows and everything was closed so it's a bit of a mystery. I also stuck my head in the attic and couldn't see anything (although I didn't do a full inspection).
Does anyone have any experience of bats and the most likely point of entry?
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Post by LandieMark on Feb 24, 2021 8:55:49 GMT
Chimney is the most likely point. A friend in the village has them come down the kitchen Aga chimney quite a lot.
I love watching them. we have them roosting in our front porch roof space. Lindsey sees them as flying mice and is suitably terrified of them. 🙄
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Post by PetrolEd on Feb 24, 2021 9:48:21 GMT
Had all sorts in the house when we had a cat as a child but they were obviously all brought in through the cat flap.
Oddest I've had was about 2 years ago when a bird of some sort got into the house when we were out. It had flown around for a while and there was blood splatters over the inside of the windows but no sign of a bird anywhere. I can only assume it flew back up the chimney from where it came.
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Post by Bob Sacamano v2.0 on Feb 24, 2021 9:55:51 GMT
I had a rat in me kitchen once!
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Post by PG on Feb 24, 2021 9:58:22 GMT
I had a rat in me kitchen once! Well what am yo gonna do?  |
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Post by Martin on Feb 24, 2021 10:00:25 GMT
We had a bat come down the chimney when I was a kid, so my parents had some mesh fitted to the top.
We had 2 cats, one until quite recently and thankfully they never brought any gifts into the house.
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Post by PG on Feb 24, 2021 10:00:33 GMT
Re the OP, it might well have flown in past you. They can move darn fast when they want to.
Maybe better move this to VIP - I'm pretty sure even moving a bat is an offence and having them in your porch pretty much condemns your house to never being sold or ever being worked on !
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Post by garry on Feb 24, 2021 10:01:17 GMT
We often get bats in. I live in a converted barn near woodland. They fly in though the windows here. They are just coming out of hibernation about now so I wonder if they’ve been in the loft over winter. I just close the door to the room they’re in, turn on the lights and put the radio on in the room . They leave pretty quickly - don’t like noise or light
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Post by ChrisM on Feb 24, 2021 10:08:58 GMT
Re the OP, it might well have flown in past you. They can move darn fast when they want to. Maybe better move this to VIP - I'm pretty sure even moving a bat is an offence and having them in your porch pretty much condemns your house to never being sold or ever being worked on ! In England, yes I believe that bats are protected. Not sure about Scotland though. I'd contact your local authority to ask what steps you can take legally, to keep them out of your property and to remove them if you get a repeat occurrence |
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Post by PG on Feb 24, 2021 10:12:25 GMT
Re the OP, it might well have flown in past you. They can move darn fast when they want to. Maybe better move this to VIP - I'm pretty sure even moving a bat is an offence and having them in your porch pretty much condemns your house to never being sold or ever being worked on ! In England, yes I believe that bats are protected. Not sure about Scotland though. I'd contact your local authority to ask what steps you can take legally, to keep them out of your property and to remove them if you get a repeat occurrence There is absolutely no way I'd do this! Their bat people will be straight round to make sure that you have not done anything at all, have not got more bats and then never leave you alone. To be serious, you can remove a lone bat from your house if it gets in accidentally, but if you have bats living somewhere in your house (roof, porch etc) you're basically "fucked" as far as moving them goes unless you can jump through all the hops to get a licence. |
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Post by garry on Feb 24, 2021 10:22:12 GMT
In England, yes I believe that bats are protected. Not sure about Scotland though. I'd contact your local authority to ask what steps you can take legally, to keep them out of your property and to remove them if you get a repeat occurrence To be serious, you can remove a lone bat from your house if it gets in accidentally, but if you have bats living somewhere in your house (roof, porch etc) you're basically "fucked" as far as moving them goes unless you can jump through all the hops to get a licence. I can second that. You’ll see where all your council tax goes if you get exposed to the wonderful world of conservation inside local government. |
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Post by racingteatray on Feb 24, 2021 11:30:10 GMT
Bat people sound terrifying!
Bats in rural properties are fairly common. We used to occasionally get bats in my mother's house in Suffolk, but as the house dated back to 1690 it didn't lack for nooks and crannies where they could emanate from, and equally the cat flap was definitely a possibility. Bats were certainly living in the loft as when my mother had the roof re-done in the early 90s, she had to have it done in a bat-friendly manner which included specific exit and entry points hidden among the tiles. Of course our cats knew about this and had a penchant for sitting atop the dormer windows by the relevant openings and trying to swat the bats as they came in and out.
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Post by Tim on Feb 24, 2021 11:45:54 GMT
Bats are protected the same up here.
We had a Robin in at the weekend after I left the front door open for an hour to help air the house.
Didn't see any bats though....
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Post by Bob Sacamano v2.0 on Feb 24, 2021 12:21:29 GMT
We had a cat who used to bring home live mice, proudly drop them at your feet, and then bugger off while you chased it round the house.
One day I was lying on the sofa watching TV when I heard the catflap go. Next thing a sparrow was flying round the front room and the cat was sitting there laughing - I swear.
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Post by Big Blue on Feb 24, 2021 12:28:33 GMT
We have loads of bats flying around the property in Spain. Whilst they are a protected species I can't imagine that many average residents in our region give a shit about legislation.
Did anyone tell cats that bats are protected species?
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Post by racingteatray on Feb 24, 2021 13:47:52 GMT
I remember a couple of not particularly small bats finding their way into my sisters' bedroom in my father's flat in central Milan one night when they were teenagers.
The room had full height floor-to-ceiling French windows out onto a balconette and they'd been sleeping with them and the curtains open due to the heat. The bats had presumably then entered in hot pursuit of the particularly persistent Milanese mosquitoes, and were duly spotted when one of my sisters switched the light on to go to the bathroom.
Oh the screams and the drama.
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Post by michael on Feb 24, 2021 13:53:51 GMT
I remember a couple of not particularly small bats finding their way into my sisters' bedroom in my father's flat in central Milan one night when they were teenagers. The room had full height floor-to-ceiling French windows out onto a balconette and they'd been sleeping with them and the curtains open due to the heat. I've always wondered how the catching rabies from bats thing worked. |
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Post by racingteatray on Feb 24, 2021 14:35:04 GMT
Although they were 10ft above our heads fluttering around the ceiling light!
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Post by Deleted on Feb 24, 2021 15:42:10 GMT
Blood feeding Bats, feeding from a human after a rabies carrying animal might transfer the disease that way.
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Post by Bob Sacamano v2.0 on Feb 24, 2021 15:44:22 GMT
Although they were 10ft above our heads fluttering around the ceiling light! We've only got your word for that. How do you feel in bright sunlight? |
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Post by racingteatray on Feb 24, 2021 16:43:09 GMT
Although they were 10ft above our heads fluttering around the ceiling light! We've only got your word for that. How do you feel in bright sunlight? My wife accuses me of being a lizard on account of my fondness for sunshine. |
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