Bat Houses

If you or your children are avid wild life observers then you should look into creating bat houses. If you have a bat house on your property it will give you the opportunity to study the night creatures and track their life and habits. The best bat houses can hold a colony of bats so you will be able figure out who the male is and who the female is and what their mating and eating patterns are. You will have a very lively bat house observatory if you build yours right and you will attract bats for years to come.

To find plans on how to make your bat houses you could go online and do a quick web search for free bat house plans. How to build bat houses becomes much easier when you have researched the different dimensions of bat houses and how that will affect the number of bats you attract. When considering building your own bat houses also consider where you are going to mount the bat house. It is best to mount your bat house, which can run two feet by three feet and larger, in a sunny area so the bat house is well heated during the day. You also want to mount the bat houses your building at least twelve feet off the ground so that predators do not get at your bats and kill all your subjects.

When you have decided exactly how you want the building of your bat houses to go then you can draw out a detailed bat house instruction plan. On the same websites that you found information about what makes a great bat house you should find free bat house patterns for how to seal up everything correctly so that wasps and poor weather do not destroy your bat residences. You can then go to your local hardware supply store to get all the right pieces and wood weights for your project.

If you want to build your own bat houses do so in the early spring. Build a successful bat house and all the bats will want to come and stay with you next year. Take your time and invest in good materials and a good plan for your bat houses and they will last you many years. Part of building bat houses is not only the construction of the bat houses but getting the bats to come back year after year so you can study them.