We aren't going batty – house repairs

I bought this bat house and put it up in Bala. It didn't work - too close to the window! I brought it with me here. I didn't have a place for it here,

bat house in Bala

until the woodpeckers had been bug hunting. The bat house has worked, covering up the big hole, until we have another woodpecker. This is the problem with wooden walls. One year it was the red wings building a nest in the bathroom vent. I replaced that. (What an adventure!)

  March 8 or 9th I noticed the new hole. Until I enlarged the photos, I didn't see the smaller one.

The first task was getting the ladder down from its storage place. It necessitates taking the car out of the garage. I needed a ladder to get to the ladder. I have to grab it, slide it back onto the railing (on the left), into the kitchen door, and back out onto the garage floor.

 March 10th, climbing the ladder, I removed the bat house and the stick, with hubby holding the ladder. When I removed it I saw the old hole, the same size as the new one! A perfect circle. How do they do that?!

Dorah was upset with the noise I was making. She watched from the widow!

 Having replaced it with a piece of board, I wondered what else to do with it. It was a gentle rain, and we were dampish. I had to decide if I would paint the wood, or what. I had some nesting boxes around the corner of the house, which haven't been use. Why not attach them to the new piece of wood?

Several holes

Anyway, I moved the nesting cylinders from the back of the house to the side. They didn't use them before as they were near the Muskoka Room. We'll see if they use them here. I hope, at least, to dissuade the woodpeckers! Finally, I put the bat house back up, where the nesting cylinders used to be.