About a year ago I e-mailed to ask about bat houses. As usual I have not built nor bought one. But also as usual I have not forgotten about them.

I spent some time collecting resources of information, most of which was shared with me by some of you, and I am happy to pass it on to any one of you who also wishes to obtain a bat house.

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1b26hMaZ1igOfV7GSunOguPP0rJIpOpCHLbc7LzoyMZU/edit

Let me know if you have trouble viewing the document. Two of the links in it will not work for you. But they would not be of any interest to you anyway. They're for my organization

Incidentally Whole Foods in North Raleigh (http://wholefoodsmarket.com/stores/northraleigh) is selling bat houses for around $40. Considering materials and time I do not think that I can make one for less. (However if you have one for sale for less please let me know...)

Even if you do not desire to install a bat house a lot of valuable information can be found through that document. And bats are in need of stewards.

- Jamie

ps - the same store is selling butterfly houses. If you're interested in planting a garden that encourages butterfly and other pollinating insects let me know. I might have other information on that as well.

On Mon, Dec 26, 2011 at 9:15 PM, Jamie Bort <jamiebort@gmail.com> wrote:

The Diane Rehm Show rebroadcast a show on the declining US population of bats today: http://thedianerehmshow.org/shows/2011-12-26/declining-us-bat-population-rebroadcast

I caught only some of it but thought that each of you might be interested in this. (you all replied to my original e-mail below.

Jamie

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Jamie Bort <jamiebort@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, Jun 17, 2011 at 7:11 PM
Subject: bat houses
To: East CAC Discussion <east-cac@eastraleigh.org>, Belvidere Park-Woodcrest Listserve <bpw@eastraleigh.org>, Gardening <gardening@eastraleigh.org>

I am looking into installing a bat house and am interested to hear from other people their experiences. What worked? What didn't? Are you going to install a second or did you give up? Why? Thanks. - Jamie