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More bats 🦇 please!

debs64debs64 West Midlands, on the edge of the Black Country Posts: 4,601
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Hi all sorry if this has been asked before but any tips on encouraging bats? I live in the suburbs near Birmingham and so was surprised to see 2 bats flying around my garden last night! 
Lovely creatures, any advice on keeping them happy? 

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  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Central Norfolk UKPosts: 82,201
    edited April 2019
    Fill your garden with plants that are pollinated by nightflying insects ... the ones that give out their scent in the evening ... we have lots of honeysuckle and Sweet Rocket ... we also have a large ash tree which attracts lots of types of chafers flying around them in the summer evenings.. the bats love them ... we’re so lucky as we have a large roost of several species of bats close to our house ... it’s a protected SSSI in old chalk workings.  


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  • debs64debs64 West Midlands, on the edge of the Black Country Posts: 4,601
    Thanks MU and dove, I am planning a night scented seating area so that will help and also a couple of water features I am hoping will attract insects. I won’t risk a bat box as have cats. Thanks again. 
  • raisingirlraisingirl East Devon, on the Edge of Exmoor.Posts: 6,326
    Try to eliminate or at least limit lights outside, if you can. Not much you can do about street lights, but if you can avoid, or at least shield, security lights etc in your own garden, it'll be a help  :)
    “Light thinks it travels faster than anything but it is wrong. No matter how fast light travels, it finds the darkness has always got there first” 
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