Windows
Old Oak
The other day my wife left a window without a screen open past dusk and a bat flew in.
Possibly it was the same one that had come inside a week earlier when I’d left the door open. On that occasion, the bat decided at one point to scuttle along the floor and I gently picked it up in a pillow case and deposited it safely outside.
This time, however, the bat was highly energetic and just kept circling the room. My wife bravely volunteered to go outside to tell me when it had exited and I put on my bee suit (don’t ask) to better prepare for encouraging its exit.
After minutes of fruitless hopping about and waving a pillow case at it so that it would exit the way it came in, I realised that opening the skylight would increase my chances. Thirty seconds later it was gone.
Meanwhile outside, my wife had discovered that three or four wrens were living in the martin’s nest under the eaves. Unfortunately no pictures, but very cute. I had no idea that wrens would reuse other birds’ nests nor that they would be nesting as a group in winter. I thought that wrens built their own nests and that they kicked the kids out soon after fledging. Maybe this is a group of adults? Anyone know anything about wrens?
Possibly it was the same one that had come inside a week earlier when I’d left the door open. On that occasion, the bat decided at one point to scuttle along the floor and I gently picked it up in a pillow case and deposited it safely outside.
This time, however, the bat was highly energetic and just kept circling the room. My wife bravely volunteered to go outside to tell me when it had exited and I put on my bee suit (don’t ask) to better prepare for encouraging its exit.
After minutes of fruitless hopping about and waving a pillow case at it so that it would exit the way it came in, I realised that opening the skylight would increase my chances. Thirty seconds later it was gone.
Meanwhile outside, my wife had discovered that three or four wrens were living in the martin’s nest under the eaves. Unfortunately no pictures, but very cute. I had no idea that wrens would reuse other birds’ nests nor that they would be nesting as a group in winter. I thought that wrens built their own nests and that they kicked the kids out soon after fledging. Maybe this is a group of adults? Anyone know anything about wrens?
