Bats in the Belfry

[Mermaid]

Well, actually, not in the belfry, but in the bedroom. Imagine this cozy little scene circa midnight last night. Philippa is in the bathroom brushing her teeth, having just come in from a wild night of dancing at the Greek Festival down the street. Merman is sound asleep and I am in bed reading. All of a sudden out of the periphery of my vision I catch this dark, fast movement in the air. I glance up to see this huge thing swooping around our room! I duck my head under the sheets, fast, but not before I poke the sleeping Merman hard in the sides. "There's something flying in the room!" I yell. He mumbles "It's only a creature" in a tone of voice that says Why Are You Bothering ME I'm Sleeping with a subtext of Swat The Thing If It's Bothering You. I poke him again, harder, and he sits upright to see a big bat doing figure eights around the room.

I peek from underneath the sheets to see the man of the hour leaping out of bed. "It's a bat, Philippa!" Instead of shreiking from the bathroom as you would have expected, teenage daughter says "Thank god! I thought I was having hallucinations when I came in the door." This gave me the courage to get out of bed to take a look. I figure if Philippa is not going to be a shrinking violet in the face of close encounters with nature, neither would I.

It was amazing. We opened the windows and doors and watched as the bat circled and swooped for about ten minutes before it flew out. It was going so fast that Merman shouted that there were two of them--it really did appear that way! The whole experience was waaaay cool.

Now we have to figure out how it got in the house at midnight...

 

[Cil]

Now we have to figure out how it got in the house at midnight...

Dracula comes to mind. ;-) Bats really are cool. But they belong outside.
I am glad you got the little guy out of the house without anyone being injured or guano'd or anything else.

 

[DD]

Ok...now this is really freaky. I had JUST gotten off a bat website to check into taking a little trip down to the Texas Hill Country to see the bats emerge from their caves..

Anyhoo, very cool, Mermaid!! I bats, although I might feel differently if they were in my house!!

 

[ktmeadows]

How skeeerrrryyy Mermaid! We used to have a problem with bats hiding inside our oversized patio umbrella on the deck....it got to be a pretty comical scene whenever anyone would try to open the umbrella; we'd have to first shake the umbrella or stick the end of a broom inside to scare them out, then ever-so-slowly open the umbrella. There were as many as five or six at one time up there. We finally had to get rid of the huge umbrella since we never could figure out a way to keep them out; seemed that no matter how tightly we'd seal up the umbrella at both ends they'd still find a way in during the night. We have a regular table-sized umbrella now and don't seem to have any problems.

I used to imagine how scary it would be if one of them had gotten into the house, and wondered how we'd ever get them out. Bet that was a real waker-upper in the middle of the night! Glad you were able to get the guy out!

 

[Allifunn]

I would have been freeked out, too...but it is very cool that you had the courage to watch it...now, if it becomes a common occurance...that could be cause for concern! You could have them in your attic....
Also...do you have a fire place and is the flue open?

DD...that is REALLY wild that you were just looking into batting....:shock:

 

[DD]

I would have been freeked out, too...but it is very cool that you had the courage to watch it...now, if it becomes a common occurance...that could be cause for concern! You could have them in your attic....
Also...do you have a fire place and is the flue open?

DD...that is REALLY wild that you were just looking into batting....:shock:

I know!!

 

[Mermaid]

Ok...now this is really freaky. I had JUST gotten off a bat website to check into taking a little trip down to the Texas Hill Country to see the bats emerge from their caves..

Anyhoo, very cool, Mermaid!! I bats, although I might feel differently if they were in my house!!

You know what else was freaky? On "Prairie Home Companion" that evening, it was a repeat episode. From HALLOWEEN. Garrison Keeler was talking about vampires and haunting headless queens and and and and bats!! I didn't know that we'd have our own radio show in our bedroom, too. :roll:

 

[audie]

when my hubby still lived at home, he said they had one fly in thru the fire place while the damper was open - how nasty !!!

 

[Cork On the Ocean]

I had one in my Tarpon Springs house years ago. My ex was chasing him with a broom and I felt so bad for the little guy. He came out of my kitchen lighting and luckily I held the door open and he flew out. They fly so fast that I don't think they'll really come down and suck on your neck or anything. I personally think they get a bad rap

 

[Miss Kitty]

Mermaid's gone batty!!!