A new way to relax and take a break: Watch the nectar bats flitting around and drinking from the hummingbird feeder. They arrive around 8:30 pm and leave about 3:30 am. The hummingbirds would have a fit if they knew (they are territorial), but they don't show up until 5:30 am.
For many years I would attend to 6 one liter hummingbird feeders that would need refilling every few days.
A neighbor liked them so much, I gave all of them to her.
There is a local welder that he and his neighbor started a company that builds "bat houses" and they have sold and installed thousands of them.
Resemble an outdoor electrical breaker box with a layer of insulation and an open bottom and series of hangers where hundreds of bats can hold onto and hang from to sleep thru the day.
Some customers have half a dozen boxes mounted on a 30ft to 60ft pole like bird houses.
Great idea to keep them out of the attic of houses and other structures and avoid them to become a nuisance.
If you have ever encountered a bat up close and personal, you will fully understand the term "crazy as a bat".
An unexpected personal encounter is much the same as that with a spider monkey, except they go "ape$^!t crazy".
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Some bats feed on mosquitos; that's why most people like to keep them around.
They can also carry rabies....remember that movie 'Cujo'?
One of the ladies at the big firm where I once worked was a foster mom for orphaned baby bats and she brought some in one day. Absolutely the sweetest little cuddly faces.
