We have bats living in the attic. They didn’t declare them when we bought the house. Which legally they should have, First night we could hear scratching in the wall behind our bed. I was spooked, My husband said “I reckon we have bats”. And we do, and then some.
I’m not a fan, you can see them flying around at dusk or dawn, hear them scratching in the walls and ceilings, if I leave the windows open when it gets dark one always flies in by mistake, and all you can do is shut the door,open the windows and wait till it flies out... and we keep finding babies, they either fall down the chimneys and plop on the floor when you’re watching tv, or I find them hiding in random ornaments they have crawled into. Last year we found five dead babies on the patio (not all at once, throughout the summer.)
They fly clinging to their mothers tummy and fall off, or they crawl in the roof space hence why they fall down the chimneys.
I think it’s a huge colony up there as they only have one baby a year. So we have at least 20 bats living in there, likely a lot more as I doubt every baby died or appeared in the house. The attic is boarded up and I’d not fancy opening it. They have also damaged the paint work on the beams on the outside of the house as they scratch their way in and out,,at several points.
However they are protected so live with them we must, it’s not a huge inconvenience, it’s just a bit of a ball ache now and again. Visitors are fascinated, ive never felt that fascination. My husband used to think he loved bats, now it’s a bit like, “ah fuck, there’s a bat in the living room”.