Bat populations are threatened enough with white nose bat disease lately.

These websites have suggestions that might help:
http://www.howtodothings.com/home-ga...-of-your-house

http://www.batconservation.org/conte...sflyinginhouse


I had an apartment in an old 1850's house once - the landlord was a bit of a slumlord and wasn't very good at maintaining or fixing anything (sweet man, but overworked). The bathroom ceiling was missing the light cover and a couple of the ceiling panels. One day I was taking a shower, and a bird burst out of the ceiling and started flying panicky around the bathroom.

I'm naked & soaking wet and completely freaked by the bird, of course run out of the shower & the bathroom & close the door to trap the bird in there. I turned off all the lights in the place, covered all the windows (and myself!), opened the front door to the apartment, turned on the lights in the stairwell & hallway, opened all those windows & the front door...

And then opened the door to let the bird out of the bathroom - it thankfully followed the light out into the hallway...

At which point, I locked up and went back to taking a shower figuring the bird had several ways out and would manage.


the landlord laughed when he heard the story & told me all about how birds were a good omen and something great was going to happen to me...

Guess what happens a week later?

Another bird flies out of the bathroom ceiling....

I was not amused at my continuing good fortune.