Bats grounded near bat house
These past years we have found maybe one grounded bat a year all around this time of the year. This year we have found around 6 bats grounded in these past few weeks. I’m really concerned. Usually I just pick them up with a piece of cardboard and they either fly off from my hand or I put them on a tree for the day. We have found a few that don’t act right and seem ill or something but most of them were healthy/active. They are always gone in the day after we pick them up. We have a wasp problem in the bat house, but I can’t think that’s what causing so many of them to fall. We are working on putting a “pup catcher” or something similar to that on the wall leading up to the bat house since the building is metal and unclimbable. Does anyone have any idea why they might be falling so frequently? Is it just too hot/cold? I’m from Ohio so the temperature has been varying a lot lately. I go on daily bat patrol today so they don’t cook in the sun. Has anyone else experienced this? I just hope they’re not sick or anything. I don’t mind picking them up and whatever I’m just so worried that we did something wrong or that something’s wrong with them.