I spent a summer banding bats in Indiana as part of an undergrad project
from Earlham College. It was supervised by Jim Cope, father of Ed Cope
of our Ithaca community. We banded 10,000in one summer mainly from large
breeding colonies. My first science paper was on the results of that bat
I installed a bat house on the southeast side of my house over a year ago,
but haven't attracted any customers. There aren't any bat lures, are
there? ; )
Robin
On Fri, Dec 6, 2013 at 9:11 AM, John Confer con...@ithaca.edu wrote:
I spent a summer banding bats in Indiana as part of an
On Dec 6, 2013, at 9:11 AM, John Confer
con...@ithaca.edumailto:con...@ithaca.edu
wrote:
They do poop and pee during the winter, which can leave stains and smells.
Stupid question, but what do they do the rest of the year?
But in all seriousness, thanks for the useful information! I've had
I don't know if it's okay to keep this going, but... We have bats in our
attic and our barn. I'm not really sure if they stay all winter. But we
usually have 3 or 4 come into the living quarters during the summer. I
think it would be a good idea to ban them from the attic, but don't know
how to
Thanks John for identifying our bat. I'm sorry it's gone. A few years ago
we took a birding trip in the UK. The co-leader was Patty Briggs who is a
bat expert in England and she instilled in us a real appreciation of bats.
She told us how some bats hibernate in some of the huge ancient
Betsy, I'd love to see your picture. Also, there are both tree and cave bats it
NY. Typically the tree bats are here in summer and migrate. Cave bats are the
ones we find in our attics this time of year. Attics make great pseudo caves!
There are multiple species of each. I recently wrote a blog
