Central Midwest Gardening: Anyone counting the bats?, 1 by beckashoe

beckashoe wrote:
The bats are back, yippee!
I counted 61 bats in my three clustered bat nursery houses tonight & there was at least 1 more up there (I heard her and her droppings) but it was too dark to see her exit anyway. They started exiting at 8:04pm and I stopped watching at 8:20pm.

This is great news as I had my first mosquito bite last night.
I have three other smaller houses on poles out in the fields and will try to make time to observe them in the upcoming evenings.

The middle bat house at the peak is my oldest, I put up the two that flank it early last spring but the bats refused to use it last year as it smelled too new I guess. The one at the lower right is supposedly a house for the males and barren females. They have seemed to prefer my pole barn in past years. I don't really know if it will work, but I know that I want the guano gone from the barn.


Any other bats counters out there?