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<p>The timing leans towards bats coming and leaving. If you have enough, as one our neighbors did, you can definitely hear them going in and out. </p>
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<p>"<span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 14.6667px;">Droppings will be at the entry points"...I sure hope this isn't accurate. I have bats in my attic and there are droppings in many places.....places where, if they were getting in and
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<div id="divRplyFwdMsg" dir="ltr"><font face="Calibri, sans-serif" color="#000000" style="font-size:11pt"><b>From:</b> Shop-talk <shop-talk-bounces@autox.team.net> on behalf of Gordie Bird <mg_garage@comcast.net><br>
<b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, April 5, 2016 7:30 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> Jim Franklin; Shop-talk@autox.team.net<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [Shop-talk] What animal is in my ceiling?</font>
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Sounds like bats to me. Only need a gap the size of a dime to get in. Droppings will be at the entry points. If it is warm where you are at, you may be able to see them come or go after dusk or just before dawn.
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Since they are protected, you must exclude them rather than kill them.</p>
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Took nearly 2 yrs to get them out of my attic. </p>
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<b>From: </b><a href="mailto:jamesf@groupwbench.org" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline;">Jim Franklin</a><br>
<b>Sent: </b>Tuesday, April 5, 2016 6:42 PM<br>
<b>To: </b><a href="mailto:Shop-talk@autox.team.net" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline;">Shop-talk@autox.team.net</a><br>
<b>Subject: </b>[Shop-talk] What animal is in my ceiling?</p>
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I've searched the Internet, but all answers seem to require that I actually see evidence, and I don't. It's in the ceiling between floors. No droppings anywhere. I hear little feet like mice skittering across the ceiling, and a great big ruckus like two squirrels
chasing each other, moving quickly in the 3/4" space created by the strapping between joists and sheetrock.
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They are loudly active mostly at night, almost always at 4:30am. Often in the evenings, but sometimes during the day too. However, I haven't heard them in 2 days. Sometimes this happens.</p>
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I cannot find any entry points, so I can't observe how they are getting in. A lot of the roof trim is rotted at the ends, but there is no evidence of anything in the attic, and I never hear anything in the walls.
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In the past, any mice have eventually made it to the basement traps, but not this time.
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