Who Let The Bats Out?

[Tilly2]

There are Pipistrelles flying around in my garden!

I know it's mild but it's much too early, surely!

[-Talbot-]

The BAtHA Men?

[Tilly2]

I had to google that, Talbot. Don't think it was them.

[stuey]

I wondered where the bats in my belfry had disappeared to. Tilly, would you be so kind as to shoo them back to their roost:)?

[gailforce]

Don't let them cause you to get in to a 'flap' - Tilly2

[Tilly2]

I won't get in a flap. I think it's lovely, having bats to share my garden. It just seems that they have woken up a bit too early.

[Psybbo]

Years ago, rented a cottage in Tralee with a bat colony in the eaves. Last day I got up early to clean the house before leaving, picked up a chamois on the sink, I thought. It was a bat, the bat was unharmed and I screamed

[Tilly2]

Well, you would, sibs. Bats in the house are unnerving, as I can testify having had one in the bedroom.

[Psybbo]

Puter playing up tonight, so off and on. When I was a child there were a lot of bats and having long hair, I was terrified of them.

[Tilly2]

Who told you they would get in your hair, sibs?

[nailit]

I once had a bat fly in to my kitchen and fly out again, bit freaky, but I live near to a bit of a 'wildlife' reserve (Forest Park Tilly ;-) ) Also once had a badger run in my house and had to try and get it out again without it biting me. The bat was freaky, the badger was scary...bloody big things close up.

[Tilly2]

Blimey, nailit. An encounter with a badger must be scary!

[Psybbo]

My mother, Tilly! Hi Nailit, only badger I've seen has been road kill

[Tilly2]

I knew it would be your mother, sibs. Daft bat!

[gailforce]

Well, my joke didn't work :-(

[nailit]

Scary at the time Tilly, I was running around my living room with a broom trying to shoo it out. I had nipped out one night and came back and left my door open (hot summer night) and the bloody thing just came into my house. Didnt realise how big they are close up, nasty as well. Got it out in the end after chasing it around my living room a few times.
Id have a bat in my home anyday rather than a badger.

[Tilly2]

gail, your joke did work but I don't get into a flap about bats. Badgers, yes. Bats, no.

Nailit, I can just picture you with the broom going, 'Shoo, badger, shoo!

[DTCwordfan]

Badgers here, Psybbs! Mainly at night time as you come down the drive - local farmers will line them up in the lanes and squash them, understandably given the supposed linkage to Bovine TB - one thing though, if you have badgers, you won't have hedgehogs - they are a badger's equivalent of a Mars Bar.

Bats, tilly, £5000 fine if you disturb them when they are nesting in your eaves/roof..........

[Psybbo]

Tilly, shoota will suddenly appear!

[nailit]

Hi psybbo, Im luckey eneough to live in a part of town thats surrounded by wildllife (Tilly as a fellow Stokie will know it...) Lots of wildlife inc badgers, foxes, swans, squirrels etc (and bats)