I picked up these leaflets today as I want to learn more about the bats we have living around the house. They are almost certainly common pipistrelles. In summer (at dusk) I can stand on the main lawn and have them circling round above me. I havn't seen any for a couple of weeks so I guess they are hiberbating now. They live in the barns around the farmyard. Most people don't like bats, but they do a lot of good work (for instance each one will eat about 3,ooo insects per night).
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Yeah, and the results of that ingestion are piling up in my roof space. We have to lay fresh newspaper every month. I need to put deeper insulation up there but no-one will venture up to do it with the pipis flying about their heads. Not my favourite wildlife.
You must learn to love them Anna.
They have very few friends.
The farmer (who uses the barns around the house) has been breaking open the roofs of some of the outhouses (admittedly already close to derelict) to drive out the bats. I am left with the quandary - do I report him and risk a war breaking out (we are already close to that) or do I say nothing and more of the wildlife disappears (he would love to develop his half of the farmyard as housing but I will never agree to access - he probably thinks I am a NIMBY).
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