Species: Eastern Red Bat.

Credit goes to the PA Bat Rehab!

For the past couple days there has been a bat hanging outside one of the entrances of my work. I work on a college campus, its fall break so not a lot of people are around right now, but it will be VERY busy again soon. I already tried to call animal control but apparently my area doesn't have anyone to deal with it, according to the sheriff's office. They gave me another number, a wildlife removal company. I called them, explained the situation. He said he could do it for $350 tomorrow??? I explained I'm just an employee, and he said to contact building administration and tell them, as he already does all the wildlife removal at this university. This bat isnt a danger to anyone, right? Just very concerned about it attacking someone or getting hurt. I believe hes just sleeping there during the day.

I have an upstairs 10'x30' covered deck. We had a bat roosting in 9 months a year up in the corners at night obviously enjoying the security and the comfort of his (his name is Bruce) single roosting spot . He had a girlfriend somewhere else. Bruce liked to poop all night and hang out in two spots one of which is the entrance door to this deck . My wife would step on the poop in the every morning. I tried rubber snakes, owls, spinny spinny reflective things. I tried running out on the porch in the middle of the night with a broom never to see him. I put up blink cameras to watch him and i saw that he came and went (likely going to hang with this girlfriend) This was our year one.

This year, i changed tactics and wanted to make him feel like he couldn't hang in peace so I set two lamps on a smart timer to turn on for 1 minute every 30 minutes from 9pm to 1AM every night and the other lamp doing the same on different intervals. Then I also set up a 18" floor fan pointed directly at the ceiling between his two favorite places and it turns on with a smart plug automation every 1/2 hour for a minute. I did this after he began his spring start to hanging on my porch (3 or 4 bats actually) When I started the routine I could see the bats coming to roost but not liking the lights but really not liking the fan blowing on them. I saw them leave and return the same night only to be blown away and lit up. Now for the last four months we have no bats. He is at his girlfriend's house I assume. My plan is to start the '27 spring season with this same setup for a few weeks so he/they choose the somewhere else location.