{"id":7631,"date":"2017-06-12T09:25:05","date_gmt":"2017-06-12T13:25:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/?p=7631"},"modified":"2017-06-12T09:25:05","modified_gmt":"2017-06-12T13:25:05","slug":"bats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/2017\/06\/bats\/","title":{"rendered":"Bats"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/20170611_125319.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/20170611_125319-191x299.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"191\" height=\"299\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-7632\" srcset=\"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/20170611_125319-191x299.jpg 191w, https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/20170611_125319-96x150.jpg 96w, https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/20170611_125319-768x1204.jpg 768w, https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/20170611_125319-652x1023.jpg 652w, https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/20170611_125319.jpg 1612w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 191px) 100vw, 191px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nWhen we first moved to the country many years ago, we had bats.  In the twilight and evening hours we could see and hear bats flying around  and eating a lot of bugs.  They stopped appearing some years ago.  SO we thought, maybe we should put up a bat house?  We have put up maybe 10 or more bird houses and they do attract birds, so why not bats?<br \/>\nPlans to build bathouses are widely available on the Internet, but time was lacking to actually do the building.<br \/>\nWe finally found one for sale in Campbellford at the wonderful Stedmans dept store.  That was two years ago.<br \/>\nWe finally found it again and went to mount it back in the property but could not find a suitable location.  They wanted 10-15 feet above the ground, south facing and at least 3-5 feet clear underneath for takeoffs and landings.<br \/>\nSo, lacking a decent tree, we tried this, mounting it on the entrance arbour to one of the gardens.<br \/>\nIt may take a year or two before they may get inhabited, so now we just have to wait and see.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When we first moved to the country many years ago, we had bats. In the twilight and evening hours we could see and hear bats flying around and eating a lot of bugs. They stopped appearing some years ago. SO we thought, maybe we should put up a bat house? We have put up maybe [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":494,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7631","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gardening"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7631","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/494"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7631"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7631\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7633,"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7631\/revisions\/7633"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7631"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7631"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7631"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}