[Closed] Is any one lucky enough to have Bats in their garden ?

Regularly see them zipping across our garden at dusk, you can only see them for a second sillhouetted against the sky they're so quick. I presume they live in the woods nearby.

One flew into my arm a few weeks back at the end of a nightride just down from The Cutting, twas a horrible creepy feeling knowing Id been touched by a bat. I love em flying about but dont want one tangled up in my sleeve.

can you encourage bats in surburban terraces? There aren't many trees down the back but i'd love to get some buzzing about

http://www.bats.org.uk/pages/encouraging_bats.html

I've a juvenile Common Pipistrelle in my office at the moment, he's going home tonight.

I once went on an organised bat watch.
The park ranger took a group of us into the woods. Out came his special microphone to pick up their noises and a large bright light.
It was really amazing seeing loads of them flying around.
Then we walked down to a nearby lake, where we watched daubenton bats skimming across the top of the water catching all the insects.

I came recommend at trip out if you have ( older children), it's great fun.
Mine was at Lyme park, near Stockport.

Our cat also brought one in a few months ago. Sat watching TV and heard this funny clicking, after a quick search found it under the table. I caught it in a shoe box while our lass looked on the web to find out what to do. It said to ring the local 'bat man'. He came around 2 days later, we kept it in a shoe box in the spare room. He went in for it but it had got out, finally found it, bit him twice. He left but haven't heard anything since. Never seen one flying around near us though.

Maybe linked, when we got our planning permission through for an extention the only condition was to stop work if we found bats. I searched all the related planning applications in the area and none mentioned bats.

Saw plenty of these in Australia recently:

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Grey-headed flying fox: don't fancy being hit by one while on the bike, would be like being hit by a flying jack russell with a 1m+ wingspan. But cool creatures.