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How to catch a bat?

  • 02-04-2009 12:05am
    #1
    tyther
    Closed Accounts Posts: 126 ✭✭


    This is a slighty weird question, but anyway a bat has somehow come down from my attic into one of the rooms in my house, but has got disoriented and cant find its way back up. I know this may be a long shot but would any of ye know how to catch a bat? Thanks in advance lads.


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  • #2
    AlanSparrowhawk
    Closed Accounts Posts: 485 ✭✭AlanSparrowhawk


    Obviously tried opening up the windows in the room and leaving it be for a while? i've never trapped a bat before but I had a similar problem with a thrush in my room. I threw a towel over it and carefully let it out the window.


  • #3
    seanybiker
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,898 ✭✭✭✭seanybiker


    ah the poor little chap. Try the towel technique. If he is to fast use a blanket or something. Are ya throwing him in any food. I'd wanna keep him.


  • #4
    Alun
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,499 ✭✭✭✭Alun


    You might try and contact these people ...

    http://www.batconservationireland.org/index.php

    They might be able to help you out with some hints on how best to catch him / her.


  • #5
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    I always find opening the window to be the most effective. Make sure blinds or curtains are out of the wat. A cloth has worked for me at times but rarely nneded it.


  • #6
    6th
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,247 ✭✭✭✭6th


    Alun wrote: »
    You might try and contact these people ...

    http://www.batconservationireland.org/index.php

    They might be able to help you out with some hints on how best to catch him / her.

    I second contacting these guys. Had dealings before and they were very nice.


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  • #7
    gversey
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 262 ✭✭gversey


    Get a pair of womans tights,wrap a small stone up in it and just lob it across the room without braking anything,he might go for the stone thinking its a fly and his nails will be caught in the tights..open the door and let him go...

    Seen my grandfather doin this ten years ago,he wanting to show me what a bat looked like,,let him go again of course,,dont see why he didnt just bring me to the zoo,but thats my grandad for ya,lord rest him....


  • #8
    tyther
    Closed Accounts Posts: 126 ✭✭tyther


    Thanks for the replys guys. In the end i caught him with a towl and took him outside. He turned out to be a pipistrelle.


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