Granted, the temperature is higher now than it generally is in November.  Granted, I have the porch doors and their screens open to catch any vagrant breeze because I don't do hot – never have, doubt that I ever will.  Still, who would believe multiple bats in her kitchen in November?

Bats in the kitchen in November, you say?  She must be nuts! 

She is not nuts.  Two little bats are swooping and veering overhead even as I type.  

Gimme a minute….

OK.  Cut off the lights after opening the door wide.  The two little bats are gone.  I love bats but not in my kitchen!   There is no food for them, no upside down clingy places for them to sleep , and I don't like fleas/lice/etc. 

Yet, I do love bats.  I have several bat houses nailed up high in trees around my house.  Batty & Co. keep mosquitoes and gnats to a minimum, and I love watching them flitter about.

I like snakes, too.   Ask me about my mouse extermination, if you dare!

Maud the Queen of Darkness

Mwahahahahahahaha

Nah, nothing to freak about.  They were attracted to the lights, then got panicky.  If I'd panicked, they'd still be stuck in my house.  Instead, I did what they'd want me to do.  Shut off lights, then open all egresses.  So I did.

Just a wee pair of tiny bats who were misdirected.  They're outside now where they belong, swooping and diving for bugs.

Tomorrow night, it will be chilly so Batty and Friend will snuggled up in a bat house of mine (I hope). 

I love me some gentle predators!

I like bats and snakes too! We had bats living in the walls of our house summer of 08. I built a large bat house and put it on the TV antennae at the back of the house. This year they lived there and not in the walls of my house, thank goodness! I like them too, just not in the walls.

I had an adult swooping around in my house last year too. I opened the door just before dawn with the porch light on and it flew into the house, around the kitchen and back out the door, which I left open wide.

We also found two babies in the living room last year. They fell through an opening beside the wood stove pipe. We put them outside and closed up the opening. I am really glad they are not in the walls this year!

I like to watch them swooping around the house at night, eating insects.

Bats are great! Bats are our friends.

I have lots of vary large garder snakes too. They are our friends too.