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Rick
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Posted: Tue Jan 17th, 2006 05:02 am |
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| I read in a post on this website that bats avoid areas with windchimes, and water falls, not to mention lawn mowers. So I have this question. I live in great bat habitat but I have a faily large garden pond complete with a 2 foot high water fall pratically up againt the front of my house. It looks much better than shrubs or bushes, plus the water fall sounds great right outside me bedroom window. Plus I still have to mow the lawn. Is this going to discourage bats from a bat house?
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Joe Spencer
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Posted: Tue Jan 17th, 2006 09:33 pm |
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Hmm, only if your mounting it on the house and I'd keep it away from the chimes. Have you considered a rocket bat house or back to back nursery houses on a pole or post? 
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Posted: Wed Jan 18th, 2006 12:44 am |
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| Joe,,I have decided to place up 3 houses one of each proven design. I also have figured out a way to make a small 2X2 enclosed area in my attic that would be accessable to bats. I have a really great 15 foot 2 inch sqaure pole up with a carriage system on it I use for purple martins. Im just not going to put martin houses on it this year. I have an interesting lot, with a Utility company right away behind me and a good mile of water with treed Ilsands behind that. On the West end of my property I have a tree line of Bluespruce, I see bats flying along that often. It gets a bit shady there around 4 pm in the summer. So I figured by having a potential of 4 varoius shelters something should come of it. Ive been working hard trying to restore some natural order to this little part of the world with some success. I have successfully attracted nesting woodpeckers, wood ducks, tree swallows , purple martins. All I need is bluebirds and bats.Im very much a hands on management kinda guy when it comes to these things. I even have a birdbanders permit. If possible Id like to attract big Browns and little browns. I figured with all these options it may work. Ther are a very few small maternal colonies in attics and business signs nearby which had evicted the bats in Oct.I think thats how I ended with the Big brown I have hibernating in an aquarium at the moment. Any suggestions Joe? By the way this is a great website.
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Posted: Wed Jan 18th, 2006 02:01 am |
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| Another thing comes to mind,, Electirical lines. I have some big ones in the right of way behind me. they run along the waters edge farther from my property line but they are close by. They are the really tall ones on the large single steel mounts, looks like a huge white tree. Is this a problem?
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Terry Lobdell
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Posted: Wed Jan 18th, 2006 03:58 pm |
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Sounds like the electrical lines are easily visible.......From my observation of bats in flight, they are pretty good at avoiding obstacles that are easy to see........thin dark wires or moving objects are more of a hazard. I would think powerline right-of-ways which create a swath through forest would be attractive to bats.
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Posted: Wed Jan 18th, 2006 09:04 pm |
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Bats will have a problem with non-stationary things such as wind turbines during migration:
The study goes on to say that "All available evidence indicates that most of the bat mortality at U.S. wind plants involves migrant or dispersing bats in the late summer and fall." It is theorized that migrant bats, since they are not searching for insects or feeding, turn off their echolocation in order to conserve their energy resources.
Complete story: http://www.awea.org/faq/sagrillo/ms_bats_0302.html
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Posted: Thu Jan 19th, 2006 03:41 am |
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| Theswe wind turbines are hard on song birds that migrate at night as well. The other thing is cell tower radiation, birds are dropping dead from that as well.
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