The Blog @ Shropshire Wildlife Trust

We’ve encouraged birds and bugs so this week it was the turn of bats!

It was a noisy session with lots of banging but we eventually produced two wonderful bat boxes.

We decided to position them in the school grounds so one of them faces south and the other faces north, to encourage bats to use them all year round.

Bat boxes are easy to make but once they are in place you should not open them. To inspect a bat box you need a special licence so if you suspect a bat is using them contact your local wildlife trust. You can still watch to see if any come out at dusk though!!