RV Guests

When we opened the blinds on the back window of our 5er this morning we
discovered we had guests, four bats! We have a pull down see thru shade on
the outside of our back window and the bats have taken up residence hanging
upside down from the shade between it and the window. From the outside they
are almost invisible, but show up real well when looking out the window.

We have seen a few bats flying in the area about sundown, but have no idea
where they have been spending their days. There is lots of smoke in the air
and perhaps that has caused problems with the bats navigation system or the
fire SE of us may have caused them to move. It will be interesting to see
if they are roosting on our window shade again in the morning.

Ron
on the banks of the Yellowstone River near Emigrant, MT

On Aug 16, 8:04 am, Hunter <airstreamingy...@geemail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, 16 Aug 2007 08:43:22 -0500, "Ron Recer" <ro...@> wrote:
> >When we opened the blinds on the back window of our 5er this morning we
> >discovered we had guests, four bats!
>
> That's so cool. I really like bats.
>
> Mosquito killing machines...
>
> Hunter

There are a number of locations in Florida, like Tampa and The Keys,
where they built major bat-houses (not to be confused with the Bat
Cave) in hopes of keeping large colonies of bats to deal with the
skeeters. Didn't work out like they hoped...

Pete

Hunter wrote:

> On Thu, 16 Aug 2007 15:03:55 -0700, ratatouilleratm wrote:
>
>
>>There are a number of locations in Florida, like Tampa and The Keys,
>>where they built major bat-houses (not to be confused with the Bat
>>Cave) in hopes of keeping large colonies of bats to deal with the
>>skeeters. Didn't work out like they hoped...
>
>
>
> We have a bat house at the farm.
>
> Like to watch them leave at dusk.
>
> Caught a rat snake slithering up to get hisself a little bat snack.
>
> Took him out to the front pasture and put sticky gooey stuff on the
> places where he climbed.
>
> So far so good.
> Hunter

My older sister keeps telling me not to try and control the environment.

She's the one with sparrow problems though, not me.
LZ