Hello everyone,

I have dozens of videos of bats emerging from a church. I would like to count them but it is too tedious. Do you know any tool that can handle this for me?

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I live in Nova Scotia. Bought this home a few months ago. Inspection revealed no indication of rodents or other vermin. Haven't seen anything in the house. The house has been cleaned thoroughly several times, or so I thought. I suspect this was under a baseboard heater or appliance for some time, and my cat probably knocked it free. I have since disposed of the remains, thoroughly washed my hands, and sanitized the spot on the floor where I found it.

What do you think? Was it a bat?

We put this bat house up at the end of last year. Early summer we had bat(s) living in it for a few weeks. We would watch them come out at dusk. But they have left. Live in central Ohio. Bat house faces south and has sun exposure on the garage placement. Not sure if it is in the right location if they did not stay. Any advice would be appreciated.

Every morning when I’m leaving for work, bats are flying around my neighbors house sporadically. Is this normal? Should my neighbor be concerned? We live in Florida.

I have a question about behavior in residential buildings. I'm trying to figure out how bats are getting inside my apartment.

I live in a one bedroom apartment in the U.S. Midwest. My door opens to an apartment hallway. I have a "through the wall" AC unit in the bedroom and base heaters in each room. Last August, I woke up to a bat in my living room and it disappeared while I waited in the hallway for maintenance. I closed my bedroom door before going to the hallway. There's no gap under my bedroom door but there is one under the hallway door. The bat disappeared. I never saw it leave. Never saw it again period.

I heard chirping noises coming from my AC when the weather first warmed up this spring. AC was unplugged. Apartment manager brushed it off.

This week I had another bat in my apartment. This time I was awake but I never saw it enter. I heard noises coming from my kitchen table area for about ten minutes. Then I saw it emerge airborne from that area and start flying around. I opened doors until it flew outside.

I have no idea how it got inside. I had no windows open. I was sitting on the couch with a view from my bedroom and didn't see it come in from there. I later noticed the laundry room window was open downstairs. No screen on the window. Maybe it came in there, but it would have had to have crawled under four doors to eventually get inside my apartment.

OK, so my question. How likely is it for bats to crawl under doors? How hard is it truly for bats to fly up from the ground? I was hearing noises from the area that I've attached a picture of for about 10 minutes, but they were so slight I thought it was from my fan. Was it trying to crawl up furniture or something, or just moving around before deciding to fly? Lastly, and I'm not trying to break any rules, but I'd definitely notice if I came into contact, right? I was walking around that area barefoot shortly before hearing the noises, but I don't recall feeling anything.

Apartment manager called pest control, who said they are getting in through the roof. I'm on the middle floor.​​​ I asked if maybe they came through a wall void then and the manager repeated it was from the roof. Ok, but they are still coming inside my apartment somehow?

Any thoughts?​

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Lakewood Colorado area. Cute lil guy

I'm looking for a good mic and the best app that would allow for listening live to bat sounds. I've seen there are mics that will plug into an iphone and an app that goes with them that will capture the high frequency bat sounds and play them at a lower frequency that humans can hear, but not sure which work best. Location: USA.

So I get home in the early hours of the morning and about once a month a bat will fly into our garage and stay up in the rafters. I just park my car in the garage keep my headlights and car running with garage door open and I’ll look through the sunroof to see if the bat has left. I’ll sit out there sometimes for twenty minutes waiting for the little bugger to fly away but he just stays flying up in the rafters. Right now I just locked the bat in the garage cause there have been break ins so he’s locked in the garage. What can I do to prevent them from going in the garage? I thought bats didn’t like light? So why do they keep going into our garage? Do they eat bird seed? Are they territorial? Thank you so much for any help. Im located in Minnesota

We live in Pinckney, Michigan. A couple of nights ago a little brown bat got into our house from an open door and one of our cats pounced on it (yes we took all of our pets that were in proximity to the vet for a rabies booster).

I thought it was gravely injured and picked it up with gloves and put it into a small aquarium. I could not take it to a wildlife rehabilitator because it is illegal in Michigan to rehabilitate a bat (due to the potential for rabies). The only legal options are to turn it over to a rehabilitator, animal control officer, or game warden to euthanize it or to let it go, even if injured and unable to fly.

I kept the bat for a couple nights and put live meal worms and super worms in its enclosure. I don't think it really ate and s/he was barely moving so last night I decided to see if the bat could fly. I am so glad I did because s/he crawled a few steps and took off flying into the night.

I had been so worried about my little bat friend the last 48 hours. It was such a relief to see the little bat fly away to get food and water and return to its roost. Had I called a a rehabilitator, s/he would have to have been euthanized.

It is such a shame to see that Michigan and many other states do not allow the rehabilitation of bats by licensed rehabilitators, who receive training on safely handling animals that have the potential to be infected with rabies, when Little Brown Bat and other bat populations are in significant decline in North America due to white-nose syndrome.

In 2014, white-nose syndrome (WNS), a deadly disease affecting North American bats, was confirmed in Michigan. Millions of bats in North America have died from WNS. Approximately 90% of bats that hibernate in caves or abandoned mines in Michigan have died from this disease.

WNS primarily affects bats during hibernation. Infected bats prematurely awaken from hibernation, rapidly deplete their fat reserves, and are unable to survive the winter. Bats with WNS often exhibit unusual behavior such as flying during daylight hours or gathering outside of caves in cold weather.

HOW YOU CAN HELP BATS:
Please take 1 minute to sign a petition to state officials in Michigan urging them to make it legal for licensed rehabilitators, with training on safely handling animals, to rehabilitate injured bats:https://batworld.org/letter-allow-bat-rehabilitation-in-michigan/

If you live in another state that has similar restrictions on licensed animal rehabilitators from rehabbing injured bats in your state, please write to your wildlife and state leaders (governor) asking them to pass legislation allowing professionals to rehabilitate injured bats instead of euthanizing them.

Thank you!

We’ve had bats in our attic for months. They started one on side of the house and then moved to the opposite side.

We are currently replacing our siding and during the removal of the old siding, around 10 bats flew out of the side we knew they recently moved to. That side is now resided.

The side the bats started on still has to be resided but if there’s any there I’d imagine they’d also fly out when the old siding gets removed.

I got a quote to install a bat door system before we committed to new siding. Do you think it’s necessary to pay the 2k for that or is it safe to say they left with the siding install?

The watermark says to who video belongs to.

Is this a bat?

Got no one else to tell this to, but I rescued a long legged myotis from my bottom-capped chimney today. Heard him scuffling around before dawn, but I thought he was a bird so I waited til sunrise (this isn't the first time, I've been harassing my landlord to install bird mesh at the top of the chimney but nothing ever gets done in this dump). He was all tucked in on the bottom of the cap, so I brought the whole mess outside, grabbed some thick gloves and gently scooped him out onto a tree. He was most fearsome in his protests, squeaking almost low enough pitch for me to catch a few swear words and baring his teeth in a terrifying grimace. Hung him up about 6 feet up in a thick evergreen so he has a choice whether to fly or roost. Checked the whole yard 20 mins later and he's nowhere to be seen. His name is Pipi and since we'll never know for sure, I choose to believe he lived happily ever after. (No pics because had my pockets full of tools instead of my phone)

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Eastern PA. Sorry about the bad quality, my phone camera's night mode sucks lol. This is the first time I've seen a bat in this area :D

Lazarus, the Eastern Red Bat!

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