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Fleecewife

  • Joined May 2010
  • South Lanarkshire
    • ScotHebs
Bat
« on: July 09, 2013, 01:08:41 am »
I heard a scrabbling inside the woodburning stove this evening.  Went to investigate and found a small bat crawling around.  I collected it in a jamjar (my universal solution for small wild things) but it clung onto the edge of the woodburner with a vice-like grip and screamed the whole time - well, sort of hissed.  I put it outside and that was that.
 
However, I'm wondering how on earth it got inside the fire.  There's a stainless steel liner the whole way up the chimney so can it have fallen down from the top?  There is a mesh cage over the chimney pot but the mesh is to keep jackdaws out, not tiny bats.
 
Or is it possible that it got in somehow from the attic?
 
Next job I suppose is to investigate the attic for roosting bats - which I hope are not there as we do need to do some work on the roof slates.
 
 
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Beewyched

  • Joined Feb 2011
  • South Wales
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Re: Bat
« Reply #1 on: July 09, 2013, 07:42:46 am »
Hopefully it slid down the liner Juliet   :fc:   - the other options are bit worrying - roosting in the attic / hole in the liner  :o
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Bert

  • Joined Jan 2012
  • Isle of Mull
Re: Bat
« Reply #2 on: July 09, 2013, 07:48:41 am »
I will keep my fingers crossed  :fc:  for you, that it fell down the chimney and not through the side of it.
It is quite possible he fell down the chimney. I have rescued 2 great tits from our wood burner in the past. It was very obvious they fell down as you could hear them clattering down  from the top of the pipe.

 

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