It really is. They live in the eaves of my kitchen roof, and the others in the gable end of my cottage.
I was thrilled when I first bought this cottage to be told that bats live here too.
I like to stand under the eaves as they launch...each bat chatters as it shuffles towards the edge in a line. With one last sound it drops and flies off..then the next and so on until all have gone.
Altogether there are around 30. They fly around my cottage, and a short way up the lane. If I stand still, they sometimes fly quite close. They are Pipistrelles.
A couple of times one has somehow come into the cottage...I.think via the chimney. It is always the same one. He lets me carefully pick him up and take him back outside where I hang him up under the shed roof so he can sleep the day away until twilight again.
It really is. They live in the eaves of my kitchen roof, and the others in the gable end of my cottage.
I was thrilled when I first bought this cottage to be told that bats live here too.
I like to stand under the eaves as they launch...each bat chatters as it shuffles towards the edge in a line. With one last sound it drops and flies off..then the next and so on until all have gone.
Altogether there are around 30. They fly around my cottage, and a short way up the lane. If I stand still, they sometimes fly quite close. They are Pipistrelles.
A couple of times one has somehow come into the cottage...I.think via the chimney. It is always the same one. He lets me carefully pick him up and take him back outside where I hang him up under the shed roof so he can sleep the day away until twilight again.
Amazing. You will have to video it for us all to see, I would love to experience that :)
I will try. The weather is absolutely atrocious at the moment, so I shall wait for a dry evening. They sure are drawing in quite quickly now.
I agree its getting darker earlier