Pont Noir

I thought they hung out in family groups. Just found one hanging from the cellar ceiling all on its lonesome, has it been banished? I have called (her) Marlena for the moment.

We have a couple of bats that live in a crack on the side of the house and another that lives in the barn - despite the luxury bat box that I installed for them on a big oak tree at full OMG ladder extension height.

I've found the odd lone bat in a cellar or old building and I think that large colonies aren't the norm in the Creuse, and that different types of bat have different habits. I worked in Austin, Texas for a bit and have seen the sight of more than a million bats leaving the bridge to feed and I'm pretty glad not to have that lot live in my barn.