6 bats and counting

[dominic10]

mmmm 2 small bats on Tuesday, 2 yesterday and 2 today (Wednesday)...

We have lots of trees in our garden and in the surrounding area, have lived here for 23 years and the bats keep appearing in our house either crawling up the wall or doing the breaststroke on the carpet. They are about 2-3 inches in size. We often see low flying bats at twilight but never here in the house. We are placing them on a bush in the garden. We're pretty sure they are all different

We have searched the loft with, my OH says, an enormous torch and found nothing.

We're just wondering where mum and dad are....

[Hilary B]

Bats roosting in the loft tend to be very inconspicuous if you have the traditional dark coloured 'sarking' material under the tiles. The commonest bats in roofs are pipstrelle, which are tiny, and when 'hung up' to sleep may simply look like a wrinkled bit of sarking, unless they move. If these are pipistrelles, they are probably adults.
It is unusual for bats to find their way into an inhabited space (more likely to get there by LOSING their way, especially if they are landing on the carpet). Is there something nearby that might make a very high-pitched noise (too high for humans to hear at all)? It would be something like an electricity sub-station, or some other 'machinery' which whines a lot of the time.....

[dominic10]

8 bats and still counting?

Thank you for your reply. My OH has been on the internet and is sure they are young pipistrelles because they are smooth skinned/hairless - the last one is really tiny, about an inch long and I have just taken a photograph. We think they are coming in down the chimney which is really strange. Nothing has changed sound wise we think locally as we live at the end of a quiet cul de sac. It's a complete mystery to us.

[sharonr]

We have bats flying around our house.
I have lived in this corner for most of my life and the bats have always flown the same route. I allways wounder if it`s the same ones.