Sequel to the Bat Problem

Remember the issues we had with bats over the past 3 years? (See previous post here...). Well this year we hired 'Critter Man' to come and deal with them. This involved about a dozen visits, extremely long ladders and 2 days of a 'man-lift' to get him up high enough to inspect every square inch of the house, fill in holes and gaps (they can get in though holes less than a centimetre in diameter). In several places he put one-way traps in place so that they could get out to get food but not back in, thus necessitating them finding alternative permanent residences!






You can imagine the excitement from a small boy as we watched him from various windows as well as from outside. He was also very helpful in also trimming some branches that were scraping the roof on the 3rd floor the last day he had the man-lift and the guys from the city were very happy to have to only deal with the already-cut branches. Here they are with their tricky mulching machine which Cooper was of course very impressed with!