How to move bats out of the loft?

[_Rich_]

Right so leave them be, Just as i thought to be honest.

The rat catcher has set up traps for rats incase it was that and i believe he's coming during the week to check them.

Regarding the scratching, its only a few minutes every other night. It'll be one part of the ceiling and they'll fly to another part and do the same, i thought it was a pigeon at first.

[Spudler]

Very dodgy ground, got to play by the rules.
We converted a barn a few years ago and we had to build a bat roost 1.5m deep by the width of the barn with plenty of old timbers built-in.
During this time the bats took off to the near by hills and iirc they were due to return in April, well past completion of the barn. They never did return and the batman wasn't the least bit surprised and never had a problem with it.
On another job (500 yo office building) batwoman was very threatening before we even started! I reckon she thought more of bats than humans. Very unrealistic and the exterior of the building will continue to deteriorate.

[mike74]

Suspect it's more than just bats if there's as much noise as you claim, I remember someone once saying-
''if you suspect you've got rats it's probably mice... if you suspect you've burglars it's probably rats!''

[blueg33]

SAB888 said:

Equus said:

037 said:

Do not call the bat people.
Wait till summer then remove the nest / block up opening, or just leave them.

Spot the bat expert (not)!

I'm still waiting to see my first bat nest, It's also an offence to block up any opening that bats use, and they can squeeze through small holes. The potential fine for each offence is £5,000. If more than one bat is involved, the fine is £5,000 per bat. In England and Wales an offender can also be imprisoned for six months.

I had a development site with one of the UK's largest colonies of lesser horseshoe bats to relocate. This colony had over 500 bats. I decided other sites were more worthwhile and exercised my right to disappear over the horizon at high speed.

[SAB888]

blueg33 said:

SAB888 said:

Equus said:

037 said:

Do not call the bat people.
Wait till summer then remove the nest / block up opening, or just leave them.

Spot the bat expert (not)!

I'm still waiting to see my first bat nest, It's also an offence to block up any opening that bats use, and they can squeeze through small holes. The potential fine for each offence is £5,000. If more than one bat is involved, the fine is £5,000 per bat. In England and Wales an offender can also be imprisoned for six months.

I had a development site with one of the UK's largest colonies of lesser horseshoe bats to relocate. This colony had over 500 bats. I decided other sites were more worthwhile and exercised my right to disappear over the horizon at high speed.

Like a bat out of hell?

[blueg33]

SAB888 said:

blueg33 said:

SAB888 said:

Equus said:

037 said:

Do not call the bat people.
Wait till summer then remove the nest / block up opening, or just leave them.

Spot the bat expert (not)!

I'm still waiting to see my first bat nest, It's also an offence to block up any opening that bats use, and they can squeeze through small holes. The potential fine for each offence is £5,000. If more than one bat is involved, the fine is £5,000 per bat. In England and Wales an offender can also be imprisoned for six months.

I had a development site with one of the UK's largest colonies of lesser horseshoe bats to relocate. This colony had over 500 bats. I decided other sites were more worthwhile and exercised my right to disappear over the horizon at high speed.

Like a bat out of hell?

Totally

I recall it clearly. The landowner had lied. We had a big legal meeting in london, i asked the question directly in the meeting. Landowners solicitor advised him to tell the truth. I just got up and walked out. That lie cost me about £12k in legal fees up to that day.

[peekay74]

Where abouts do you live? If in the Buckinghamshire area it could be Glis Glis - really noisy buggers at night, sounds like they are wearing leaf boots and gnaw away at everything - if it is them they should be hibernating about now so noise should stop very soon, and the. You can look forward to waking up in spring and the noises starting again!! (Not doubting you have bats, but could be Glis Glis too which would explain the noise)

[Equus]

blueg33 said:

I had a development site with one of the UK's largest colonies of lesser horseshoe bats to relocate. This colony had over 500 bats. I decided other sites were more worthwhile and exercised my right to disappear over the horizon at high speed.

We had a development in the Forest of Dean that was about 500m from the UK's largest population of Greater Horseshoes (which were roosting in the ventilation shaft of a disused railway tunnel). The LPA ecologist was insisting that we had no streetlighting and a planning condition against any external lighting, as he was adamant that the batsabsolutely would not cross any lit corridor and that lighting on our site would therefore be catastrophic to the colony.

Half way through arguing this, a report was published in the national press on a study that had found bats from 'our' colony were regularly commuting to another colony in mid-Wales (all without crossing any lit roads, or encountering any external lighting on their way, obviously... ).

He wound his neck in a bit, after that!

[megaphone]

I thought bats didn't like light? Just stick some bright lights in the loft, surely that would shift them somewhere else? Make sure you block any holes after they've gone.

[w1bbles]

There are advantages to having bats in your loft. We live in a midgy part of Scotland but with 300 bats in the roof (in summer - last count of the dusk exit was about 2 years ago) we don't have any midges! I think they're great little animals. When it gets dark it's like watching planes taking off on a bombing mission.

[Cheib]

Bit of a thread resurrection. We’ve just had a but survey done....as we’re putting planning permission in to demolish and build a new house. We’ve lived here for four years...never seen a bat but the house is fairly old and the roof is knackered. Bat people turned up and as they were walking round said they could see loads of potential places a bat could get in (dislodged tiles etc). When they went in the loft they found evidence of what they are pretty sure is a Maternity Roost....which is about as big a bat problem as you can have as they said. When we build the new house we tether nerd to build a new roost/shed in the garden or have a specific area in the loft for the bats. When we demolish the house tiles have to be removed individually and any bats found relocated....can only be don’t Sep to Dec.

Here’s a useful bit of info for the amateur bat hunter...mouse poo when you squash it just squashes....bat poo crumbles.

It’s going to cause a six month delay to our house build and probably cost a few quid but it is what it is. The one thing that did occur to me is that if we’d just got the roof repaired this would never have come up as I don’t think you need a survey. We never use the loft which is maybe why they like it so much. Apparently the young bats practice flying inside before they take to the outside....so it’s kind of like a bat gymnasium up in the loft.

[KAgantua]

_Rich_ said:

Had the rat catcher in the other day thinking rats in the loft but he see's evidence of bat poo, so we think we have bats in the loft (old house hard to see beyond chimneys etc). Now the little buggers are noisy during the night and waking me up from ones beauty sleep.

I believe they're a protected species but is there a friendly way to move them on, the way they scratch around up there i swear they'll come through the ceiling (i have garlic and a cross on the bedside table in anticipation for this)

Genuinely though is there a way to move bats on without causing harm?

Contact this guy - he will take them off your hands for you https://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&...