Has anyone seen any bats this year?

dreadpirate · Jul 4, 2016

I have seen bats for years here in Northern MoCo. Always in the evening during the non-winter months.

dreadpirate · Jul 4, 2016

I will say the the fireworks this weekend really f**ks with the bats. They fly very erratically when boomers are going off.

traveller · Jul 4, 2016

Found them last night. Walked to the back of the property to find a good location to watch the fireworks. Bats were out in force to scoop up the early evening insects.

Doco Overboard · Jul 23, 2016

Im seeing some, more bee's too which were rarer last year around my parts

slybarman · Jul 29, 2016

Saw my first bats this year. There were 4 or 5 in the back yard. Hopefully eating mosquitoes.

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Sticky · Jul 30, 2016

I take the dog (GSP) for a walk (on a 50' check cord) late in the evening on a grass field around dusk and he has a ball chasing the bats... it's hilarious to watch, cause you can barely see the bats, even if at all at dark, yet he has no problem other than he can't get the 10-15' up in the air to get one of em... Runs all over chasing them and I swear, they just taunt him to anger him more... :lol2:

Wheaton Hills Sportsman · Aug 6, 2016

Plenty of bats in Wheaton, but they showed up later than usual this year.

Squaregrouper · Aug 7, 2016

We have quite a few at our house- nesting behind a 2nd story shutter.
I'm in Baltimore County; NW side of I-695

adit · Aug 22, 2016

http://rssfeeds.delawareonline.com/...elaware-bat-decline-tracked-with-grant-money/

Story about the bat decline.

GunnerGunz · Aug 22, 2016

yes a few fly around at dawn and dusk in Frederick

Art3 · Aug 22, 2016

I've been keeping my eyes up at dusk ever since I first saw this thread. I see quite a few bats here on the farm, but definitely not the numbers I used to.

babalou · Aug 22, 2016

a lot in Germantown and to Poolesville

photoracer · Aug 22, 2016

I started seeing them here in WV about a month ago or so. Seemed kind of late to me. Also not as many.

Boom Boom · Aug 22, 2016

Everywhere lately around my place starting at dusk.

Blacksmith101 · Aug 22, 2016

Just when we need them to eat the Zica mosquitoes.

Trekker · Aug 22, 2016

I was out around dusk two weeks back at the Abingdon IWL. A fair number of bats were flying about over the small parking lot, perhaps one flyover every 10-15 seconds.

hlpdobro · Aug 23, 2016

I just paid attention to this thread as a bat somehow got into the house a couple of days ago while we were eating dinner.

My first thought was a bird..A very quiet bird..but no.

Graceful flyer and immediately went out the offered open door.

The dogs were very confused.

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Yingpin · Sep 15, 2016

squaregrouper said:
We have quite a few at our house- nesting behind a 2nd story shutter.
I'm in Baltimore County; NW side of I-695

My wife heard some scratching outside of a window this morning and I immediately thought that we had bats behind our shutter. I opened the window and started tapping on the shutter and there was one back there moving around. I think they are behind most of our upstairs shutters and we see them every night.

Not sure if they will cause any problems back there but I was thinking about getting a few bat houses in the yard as I would rather them stay there.

Any issues with them getting behind the shutters besides possibly pushing the screws away from the brick?

POP57 · Sep 15, 2016

adit said:
http://rssfeeds.delawareonline.com/...elaware-bat-decline-tracked-with-grant-money/

Story about the bat decline.

Yup. If you visit Fort Delaware, they have you walk through a disinfectant before you enter.

beretta_maven · Sep 21, 2016

Funny, I moved to MD in 2004 and had never seen (or noticed) any bats in the Hollywood/Lexington Park area - until last month. For a few weeks I swear they were swarming my area. I'd go outside just before dusk and there would be 15-20 of those buggers flying around just above my head.

Has anyone seen any bats this year?

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