Bats are excluded by placing netting over the opening they are using to enter walls or attics. In the evening, after crawling by the netting, they drop down and fly off. But later, when the bats return, they can't get past the netting to reenter. Eventually, they give up and find another attic. To break this cycle, we have begun to build bat houses and attach them next to the entrances we have just excluded.
Bats are extremely beneficial, eating thousands of insects, including mosquitoes, every night.
Up North, as the days grow shorter and colder, older hawks with established territorial claims usually stay put. But immature hawks, often last spring's fledglings, are forced to travel south in search of food. As a result, after traveling hundreds, perhaps thousands, of miles these young, inexperienced northern hawks are now on their own in a new territory, desperately searching for food. Cold, rainy days are often hopeless. The majority of starving raptors we rescue each year are immature red-tailed hawks.