Comments on: Midnight Baseball: Lacrosse With A Bat http://tcextra.com/terrycowgill/2006/08/03/bats/ What's Going On Here? Mon, 08 Sep 2008 03:09:40 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.2 By: Terry http://tcextra.com/terrycowgill/2006/08/03/bats/#comment-17330 Terry Fri, 27 Apr 2007 19:01:49 +0000 http://tcextra.com/terrycowgill/2006/08/03/bats/#comment-17330 Joshua, This is a blog. The posts often feature random thoughts. Listening to Leo was just one more frustration during the course of a frustrating night. Joshua,

This is a blog. The posts often feature random thoughts. Listening to Leo was just one more frustration during the course of a frustrating night.

]]> By: Joshua http://tcextra.com/terrycowgill/2006/08/03/bats/#comment-17301 Joshua Fri, 27 Apr 2007 16:07:16 +0000 http://tcextra.com/terrycowgill/2006/08/03/bats/#comment-17301 i like how you threw in an unneccessary shot at Nadeau. i dont see how bashing a local radio host had anything to do with your story i like how you threw in an unneccessary shot at Nadeau. i dont see how bashing a local radio host had anything to do with your story

]]> By: Judith Schwerin http://tcextra.com/terrycowgill/2006/08/03/bats/#comment-245 Judith Schwerin Mon, 14 Aug 2006 16:17:57 +0000 http://tcextra.com/terrycowgill/2006/08/03/bats/#comment-245 Terry - it must have been the week of bats in the bedroom. I was peacefully reading in bed when a bat suddenly soared around the room. Monte, my cat, rose to the occasion, using the bed as a trampoline leaped up in best jai alai fashion, scoring two hits, batting the fledermaus to the ground. The bat rallied, and continued to fly. I tried a broom to guide it to another room, but failed. Then I turned out the lights and vacated the bedroom. At this moment my husband appeared, and we began to search for the bat. Not behind curtains, it had vanished. However, Monte was sitting on my dressingtable bench, chin in the air, pointing in through-bred hunting dog fashion to the top of the carved cinoiserie Chippendale mirror. There, clinging, to a dull gilt pagoda was the bat, almost invisbile. Fred fetched an empty yogurt carton and plate, and gently lifted the bat away to release it safely outdoors. Poor deluded Monte, not seeing the bat flutter away, continued to "point" for another hour, convinced that the bat was still there. The next night at 8:45 we observed an entire colony of 35 bats emerging into the night, one by one, from an open shingle in the attic. I bought the last bat house at the Audubon center - it accomodates 20 bats only. The bat house must be placed at least 20' off the ground, facing south receiving at least four hours of sunlight daily. Now how can we be sure that all the bats are safely out of the attic space before we hammer down that shingle? We have been advised that it is illegal to move bat colonies between April and July when they breed. Also that they have a sort of velcro under their wings for collecting up to 1,000 insects to carry back to their young. I do want to keep them in the vicinity of the house, but not IN the house, for I have observed that we have significantly fewer insects than our neighbors. Terry - it must have been the week of bats in the bedroom.
I was peacefully reading in bed when a bat suddenly soared around the room. Monte, my cat, rose to the occasion, using the bed as a trampoline leaped up in best jai alai fashion, scoring two hits, batting the fledermaus to the ground. The bat rallied, and continued to fly. I tried a broom to guide it to another room, but failed. Then I turned out the lights and vacated the bedroom. At this moment my husband appeared, and we began to search for the bat. Not behind curtains, it had vanished. However, Monte was sitting on my dressingtable bench, chin in the air, pointing in through-bred hunting dog fashion to the top of the carved cinoiserie Chippendale mirror. There, clinging, to a dull gilt pagoda was the bat, almost invisbile. Fred fetched an empty yogurt carton and plate, and gently lifted the bat away to release it safely outdoors. Poor deluded Monte, not seeing the bat flutter away, continued to “point” for another hour, convinced that the bat was still there.
The next night at 8:45 we observed an entire colony of 35 bats emerging into the night, one by one, from an open shingle in the attic.
I bought the last bat house at the Audubon center - it accomodates 20 bats only. The bat house must be placed at least 20′ off the ground, facing south receiving at least four hours of sunlight daily. Now how can we be sure that all the bats are safely out of the attic space before we hammer down that shingle? We have been advised that it is illegal to move bat colonies between April and July when they breed. Also that they have a sort of velcro under their wings for collecting up to 1,000 insects to carry back to their young. I do want to keep them in the vicinity of the house, but not IN the house, for I have observed that we have significantly fewer insects than our neighbors.

]]> By: Jenny http://tcextra.com/terrycowgill/2006/08/03/bats/#comment-228 Jenny Sat, 05 Aug 2006 16:49:17 +0000 http://tcextra.com/terrycowgill/2006/08/03/bats/#comment-228 Put me and my husband Fred in the category of inappropriate overreactors!! Years ago when we lived on the Miles Sanctuary (where indoor wildlife included flying squirrels and very frequent mice to the delight of our cat, who would decapitate them and leave them as gifts on our pillow) we had a bat fly around one night. Our daughter was about a year old at the time, and we weren't sure if it had gotten in her room or not, but she had no bite on her. We did the usual routine with pillow cases, tennis rackets and pots and pans, managing to get the thing out somehow. (I don't think it survived the ordeal.) We thought nothing more of it until a few weeks later, when Mike Dudeck, the sanctuary manager, showed us a pamphlet about bat rabies - once every few years, someone, usually a child, somewhere dies of it, without anyone ever having known they'd been bitten. So of course we began researching this phenomenon, and though it was literally one in a million, we felt that the penalty for being wrong - certain death of our beloved baby - was too much to risk, so we all signed up for a long and painful series of rabies shots. Every time we went to Sharon Hospital and got into a chat with folks in the waiting room ("so, why are YOU here?") we'd get the oddest looks when we told our story. Everyone always has bats flying around, it seems, and nobody ever gets the shots! Except us, still city slickers at heart ourselves, I suppose! Put me and my husband Fred in the category of inappropriate overreactors!! Years ago when we lived on the Miles Sanctuary (where indoor wildlife included flying squirrels and very frequent mice to the delight of our cat, who would decapitate them and leave them as gifts on our pillow) we had a bat fly around one night. Our daughter was about a year old at the time, and we weren’t sure if it had gotten in her room or not, but she had no bite on her. We did the usual routine with pillow cases, tennis rackets and pots and pans, managing to get the thing out somehow. (I don’t think it survived the ordeal.) We thought nothing more of it until a few weeks later, when Mike Dudeck, the sanctuary manager, showed us a pamphlet about bat rabies - once every few years, someone, usually a child, somewhere dies of it, without anyone ever having known they’d been bitten. So of course we began researching this phenomenon, and though it was literally one in a million, we felt that the penalty for being wrong - certain death of our beloved baby - was too much to risk, so we all signed up for a long and painful series of rabies shots. Every time we went to Sharon Hospital and got into a chat with folks in the waiting room (”so, why are YOU here?”) we’d get the oddest looks when we told our story. Everyone always has bats flying around, it seems, and nobody ever gets the shots! Except us, still city slickers at heart ourselves, I suppose!

]]> By: Tony Piel http://tcextra.com/terrycowgill/2006/08/03/bats/#comment-227 Tony Piel Sat, 05 Aug 2006 16:22:47 +0000 http://tcextra.com/terrycowgill/2006/08/03/bats/#comment-227 a href Hi Terry, I put a fairly lengthy article on BATS in The Lakeville Journal earlier this year. Please look it up. The fright people are exhibiting is unnecessary, and the steps some are taking are totally inappropriate. The simple solution in your case was to shut the bat in one room, and then open a window or door to the outside or garage, lighted (as explained in my article) and the bat will be gone in no time. Killing a bat brings VERY BAD LUCK. Tony a href
Hi Terry, I put a fairly lengthy article on BATS in The Lakeville Journal earlier this year. Please look it up. The fright people are exhibiting is unnecessary, and the steps some are taking are totally inappropriate. The simple solution in your case was to shut the bat in one room, and then open a window or door to the outside or garage, lighted (as explained in my article) and the bat will be gone in no time. Killing a bat brings VERY BAD LUCK. Tony

]]> By: Marshall Miles http://tcextra.com/terrycowgill/2006/08/03/bats/#comment-224 Marshall Miles Fri, 04 Aug 2006 12:30:58 +0000 http://tcextra.com/terrycowgill/2006/08/03/bats/#comment-224 Terry: No need to kill any bats. Every house should have the following items in it: 1) A large flat cooking sheet (or a plate)about 8 - 10 inches in diameter 2) A plastic cake cover..normally about 4 inches high and 6 -8 inches diameter About 3 years ago at WKZE on Main Street in Sharon, Dick Hermans left the back door open. When Christine Zoro and I arrived the following morning, there were 24, count em, 24 bats circiling in the station!!!!! Left over from the Stan and Ira era was a silver serving tray, and also a large plastic bowl. One by one, over the course of that day, and that night, I managed to scoop up off walls, all of the critters except one! He did fly out an open door!! You can get them off a wall this way, or even on the fly!!! My place in Bat Heaven is assured. By the way, the story is true...just ask Christine Zoro!! Also, one of my favorite albums..... Bat Out of Hell by Meatloaf!! Marshall Terry:

No need to kill any bats. Every house should have the following items in it:

1) A large flat cooking sheet (or a plate)about 8 - 10 inches in diameter

2) A plastic cake cover..normally about 4 inches high and 6 -8 inches diameter

About 3 years ago at WKZE on Main Street in Sharon, Dick Hermans left the back door open. When Christine Zoro and I arrived the following morning, there were 24, count em, 24 bats circiling in the station!!!!!

Left over from the Stan and Ira era was a silver serving tray, and also a large plastic bowl.

One by one, over the course of that day, and that night, I managed to scoop up off walls, all of the critters except one! He did fly out an open door!!

You can get them off a wall this way, or even on the fly!!!

My place in Bat Heaven is assured.

By the way, the story is true…just ask Christine Zoro!! Also, one of my favorite albums…..
Bat Out of Hell by Meatloaf!!

Marshall

]]> By: Martha Miller http://tcextra.com/terrycowgill/2006/08/03/bats/#comment-221 Martha Miller Thu, 03 Aug 2006 23:40:50 +0000 http://tcextra.com/terrycowgill/2006/08/03/bats/#comment-221 Hi Terry, I have regular bat problems. I keep my tennis racket behind the kitchen door. I overhand the bat (it's my best swing) and then I put on my nytrile gloves and pick up the bat in a towel and take him outside. My bats tend to play dead for a while and then fly away. I think that I kill about one in ten, so don't feel too bad. Your guy may have made it...if not the next nine bats are safe. But you do want to keep track of your tennis racket. Martha Miller Hi Terry, I have regular bat problems. I keep my tennis racket behind the kitchen door. I overhand the bat (it’s my best swing) and then I put on my nytrile gloves and pick up the bat in a towel and take him outside. My bats tend to play dead for a while and then fly away. I think that I kill about one in ten, so don’t feel too bad. Your guy may have made it…if not the next nine bats are safe. But you do want to keep track of your tennis racket. Martha Miller

]]> By: Fran Chapell http://tcextra.com/terrycowgill/2006/08/03/bats/#comment-220 Fran Chapell Thu, 03 Aug 2006 23:24:09 +0000 http://tcextra.com/terrycowgill/2006/08/03/bats/#comment-220 This happens a few times a year in our home. My husband just opens a window and in just a couple of minutes the bat flys out. I'm usually on the other side of the door watching and he's the brave one and remains inside the room. Fran This happens a few times a year in our home. My husband just opens a window and in just a couple of minutes the bat flys out. I’m usually on the other side of the door watching and he’s the brave one and remains inside the room.

Fran

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