Bats returning?

[Beth Lewis]

Are bats recovering and returning to our area?

Yesterday I found a dead, dried up small bat in my basement window sill. Then my cabin guests had a large, live bat in their bedroom that we successfully helped escape into the night.
We think the bat got in while we were cleaning windows earlier that afternoon. My neighbor, Cathy Brown, also has had a bat around her cabin this summer on Lake Ojibway.
It has been several years since we have had bats around, due to white nose syndrome deaths.

[Mike Ruzich]

I typitgo out each night, currently late dusk. Over the entire Summer, one, maybe two bats.

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> On Aug 28, 2025, at 2:53 PM, 'Beth Lewis' via Ely Field Naturalists <elyfieldn...@googlegroups.com> wrote:
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> Are bats recovering and returning to our area?

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> Yesterday I found a dead, dried up small bat in my basement window sill. Then my cabin guests had a large, live bat in their bedroom that we successfully helped escape into the night.
> We think the bat got in while we were cleaning windows earlier that afternoon. My neighbor, Cathy Brown, also has had a bat around her cabin this summer on Lake Ojibway.
> It has been several years since we have had bats around, due to white nose syndrome deaths.
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[Carl Karasti]

As I've mentioned a couple of times before, and will add to this thread, I've had two bats that fly around over my yard in Winton every night. Well, at least every evening-night that I've paused to look for them, which is far from every night.  And as I've also previously mentioned, I've wondered if they're finding enough to eat, because we've had a very low population of mosquitoes and blackflies/sandflies/gnats this summer ... as well as decreased populations of them over the past couple of decades.  Somehow these two bats, at least, seem to have survived white nose syndrome.  I'm sure that "our" two bats must cruise around a much greater area than over my yard in order to find enough to eat.  There are also low numbers of bats elsewhere in our area, as Beth and Mike have shared.  Hopefully they are breeding and the bat population will eventually recover, perhaps even to the great numbers I remember watching decades ago as a kid and young adult.

Carl Karasti

Winton

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[Nancy Piragis]

I watched 28 fly out from under the eaves of our house one night.

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[paul schoonover]

Last Sunday I parked in front of Frandsen bank to go to Northern Expressions for ice cream with my daughters.  As we got out of the truck I heard my youngest say “Dad, what are those?”   I looked where she was pointing and saw two bats “sleeping” next to each other on the trunk of a small young tree on the sidewalk.  They were right at eye level and I was able to get a very close view.  One of them had some kind of injury or deformity to its wing.  It’s the first time I’ve ever seen a bat in daylight.  

Also, when I get off of work late at night at the casino on Lake Vermilion I walk to my vehicle at the far end of the employee parking lot.  There is a large shed near there containing dumpsters for garbage and recycling which is usually left open.  Every night I see several bats flying around near my vehicle and outside the shed.  A few times I’ve walked out of my way to go up to the door and look inside and up at the exposed trusses of the building and each time have seen multitudes of bats- too many to count, flying around the building.  Come to learn some janitorial staff refuse to even go in that building for fear of being “attacked”.  

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