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Gran
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Posted: Wed Jul 30th, 2008 03:11 am |
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I recently built a BBQ smoker from Cinderblocks. To make the chimney I used a kind of block with notch cut out of corner.(lintel block?) here is a picture from construction
What do you think is possibility of bats using a entrance like that in a cinderblock stack as a bat house. I was thinking that I could cap it off at top and make the opening at any height that I wanted. This would give a 2 4X4 columns . This would be similar to hollow tree.
Seriously thinking of incorperating something like this into one side of chimney for chimney swifts. There would not be a common opening for bats and swifts. Any thoughts?
Last edited on Wed Jul 30th, 2008 03:13 am by Gran
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Terry Lobdell
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Posted: Thu Jul 31st, 2008 02:41 pm |
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Gran, BCI has some pictures of very successful cement block bat houses.
I inquired about the possiblity of a combo bat house/chimney swift tower and was told that it has been tried in the past and bat bugs killed the baby chimney swifts.
I would love to have a chimney swift tower. There are some really good plans on a couple different websites.
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Gran
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Posted: Thu Jul 31st, 2008 10:34 pm |
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| I had heard the same info about the bugs but my thinking was that they wouldn't be sharing common areas. I guess another alternative could to attach bat house to outside of masonary chimney structure
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Gran
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Posted: Fri Aug 1st, 2008 02:50 am |
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| Terry, do you have any information on the BCI towers. I looked at their site and only found one picture(at least where I looked) and no detailed information
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Terry Lobdell
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Posted: Fri Aug 1st, 2008 03:32 am |
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| Gran, I am pretty sure I saw an article about it in their bat house researcher's archives. I will look for it and post the link if I find it.......I also think there have been articles about it in Bats magazine.
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Terry Lobdell
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Posted: Sat Aug 2nd, 2008 11:50 pm |
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Gran, here is a link to an article in BCI's e-newsletter about cement block bat towers.
http://www.batcon.org/news2/scripts/article.asp?articleID=178&newsletterID=26
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Erik
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Posted: Sun Aug 3rd, 2008 10:32 am |
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Gran, I think it is not a strange idea at all. The Bat Tower Terry mentioned are very promising and provide suitable roosts for bat species that don't use "standard" chambered bat houses.
But I was wondering. In the Netherlands a lot of bat enthousiast have build artificial (semi-)underground hibernation roosts. Materials used are often concrete blocks or concrete tubes, normal bricks, ceramic blocks and also these cinderblocks.
I realised that I have never heard about special build artificial underground roosts for bats in the USA. Are there?
Erik
Last edited on Sun Aug 3rd, 2008 10:33 am by Erik
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Gran
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Posted: Sun Aug 3rd, 2008 06:17 pm |
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here is a link to one that someone built in Texas
http://www.batcon.org/batsmag/v15n4-4.html
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