Thanks for advocating for the little floofy guys, Joel. They need all the help they can get.

I just finished working on a public volunteer project making four chamber nursery bat houses which can house hundreds of bats each. If you're using commercially made smooth lumber you need to make grooves all the way inside the roosting areas too. The bats will thank you!

💗 I have bats at my house in France...they live behind the shutters and in the barns and are a godsend for munching on all the mosquitoes that like munching on us! We sit out at dusk...wine in hand...to watch them all come out of their roosts and start their hunting for the night. The ‘talking’ noise they make when they wake up/go to bed is wonderful. Had them for years flying around our UK house, but haven’t seen any over the past couple of years 😞

Nice design but I’d have thought providing grooves inside would have been better so they can grip comfortably. I’d love to see these on more houses. I’m going to give it a go.

I love bats, beautiful misunderstood creatures. Their little faces and hands... Would love to see more footage of any that come into the nests. Great job Joel, love your channel.

Saw our first bat this year in the garden. Love watching them.

Brilliant to see Joel 👌🏻 Grandchildren are coming. They want to help me knock up a hedgehog house, bird boxes, bug hotel and will add this to their project list😉

This will become very useful as we have 3 bats that fly round our house and we were looking to make bat boxes for them to roost in. Thank-you.

5:45 saw hack 😳 I never knew that!

Big like nice sharing stay blessed healthy a day safed

Very daring, filming from the top of a ladder, they look very good fixed up under the eaves, lets hope they attract plenty of Bats, most of ours crawl into the gaps in the stone walls of the barns, I think there are cavities inside, but there are plenty more in the loft space, and in the summer when the windows are open they fly around in the house, I am surprised at how light in can be and still see them flying around, I can watch them dropping out of the joints of the barn when it is still quite light, as a further observation I see Kestrels flying a long time after sunset when it is dark? Stay safe! Chris B.

Thanks Joel. We have bats in the house we are moving to, so might make some of these for the trees in the garden. Great work, well done.

Just typed a reaction to the Wildlife Garden Project if they could make an update, with you. Then I "find" this video. 👍

Lucky bats! Nice one, Joel.

As ever Joe your videos and knowledge superb 👌

Excellent video,, I didn’t know about not using pressure treated timber (had some put aside for this, which will now be used for bird boxes).

Thanks very much for the instructions, soo easy to make. Just a suggestion in regards to preserving the wood; use raw linseed oil instead of paint to avoid any possibility of contamination via old oil based paints. Three new bat houses on the way!

Great tutorial Joel and so easy to make. Definitely will be making some of these 👍

A guava tree in my garden and i see some of bats fly around on there in evening, They like to eat ripe guava! I love to watch them!!!😊😊🦇🦇

Great help planning to get s few up on our allotment

I remember about 4 years ago up in our farmyard shed there used to be hundreds of them in there and honestly it was terrifying to go in there but there’s not many in there now the population is about the same as there is still a lot of them flying in the evening but there very difficult to spot when there sleeping

Excellent Joel such easy instructions to follow. Next project for us 😁

💕🌿🕊️💗 So awesome I love bat's, I'm building a raised bed atm but this is definitely on my to do list. Scrap wood project 😉🌿 Thank you for spreading awareness and for such a great video🍃

how easy is that ...seen the prices in shops ect ... no excuses i must make some...thanks for this joel .. ill try to get my next door interested both sides .. already got them turning there gardens wildlife freindly after they took a look at mine ...hope your well mate 👍

I have two to install once my tree surgeon lifts the canopy on my trees 😊

Superb I love how easy this is to follow thankyou

Great video :)

2:15 I think that’s the pekapeka (New Zealand long and short tailed bats) you have depicted there. I think bcuz it’s very small and the wings are folded. The conservation status of the long tailed bat is ‘nationally critical’ and short tailed bat subspecies range from ‘nationally vulnerable’ to ‘recovering’. In Māori mythology pekapeka were associated with hokioi (haast’s eagle) the largest bird of prey on earth that used to prey on moa before their recent ish extinctions. The legendary man Ueoneone from the Ngāpuhi tribe is said to have had one as a pet and they say he rode it

Nice project. One observation, if I may . . . Bats poo and pee, just like any animal, and they do this when they are roosting, so once the boxes are in use there will be small piles of bat poo underneath them. Be prepared for some daily maintenance sweeping it up and put it in a plastic bag before binning it. It’s a small task but still it has to be done. Do it carefully, as bat poo and pee can, in rare cases, be harmful to humans - so do the job regularly and always wear gloves and you should be fine.

Thank you Sir. I make Bluebird Nesting Boxes in Fernandina Beach Florida. I've distributed many many many of them, mine are made of rough cut cedar. This year I started installing a HEART SHAPED PREDITOR GUARD. I'm definitely going to start making some. Thanks I like your simple design. TED RICHARDSON

Amazing

Lovely easy to make batbox. Can I use an exterior waterproof glue to fill in any gaps in the wood that might let in water ?

I agree with Brian, the grooves need to be all the way up to the roof, otherwise the bats have nothing to cling onto once inside

It's crazy that they can fit in that small of a hole

How do they cling on inside without any ridges to hold on to?

A quick question. I understand the reason for the grab lines, but how do they hang on smooth wood inside? I have bats living in my roof space. I lost count after 100. 🙂👍

What paint is best to use that's not going to be off putting it harmful? Thank you for these videos. I love them and I'm trying to add as much as I can to my small garden

Love your videos. Just wondering, have you posted the final reveal of this London garden makeover? I've been looking for part 3, but can't seem to find it. Thank you for sharing your knowledge and projects with us. So inspiring and educational!

Nice ,Good info Thanks

Really Good. 👌

So far I have watched all the bird box videos and this one now to. In our previous apartment we lived near a big field with trees and a canal. In the summer months we loved to watch and hear the bats hunt on the open field with it's sonar noises. I miss them having around. Our back garden is east-south-east facing, but the house still gets pretty warm. And the front garden is north-west-north facing. Would a bat box still work if I would angle them towards the south and west?

I live in Manchester, a newly built house with the southern wall facing the garden. If I build a few bat houses, will they even find them? I have two bats flying around the neighborhood

Hi just a query, do you not need ridges for the bats to us to climb up & roost on, lots of other boxes have them thanks

Great video😄👍

Hey cool design. I might make a one of these for the bats around here in Northern Kentucky. The big brown bat is a bit larger and likes to live in big colonies. Thinking of taking this design and building one about the size of a standard shipping pallet and six chambers with four two inch passage holes per internal panel so they can move to a different chamber if they get a little too hot or too cool. Each inside panel and landing board will have grooves on both sides cut by a angle grinder. Also planning on adding a one inch spaced roosting panel with the sides open to the back which will be a cool off roosting area accessible through six two inch holes in the back of the house and will also serve as the mount. Oh hey did the neighborhood bats fill those bat houses you built??

Brilliant video, I’m here in Southern Ireland and I think the bats are quite big here is the 16mm battern still big enough? I watched a bat early hours of this morning diving up the gable end of my cottage but there is no space so need to make some asap. Thank you ps I have loads of moths and I’m making a big wildlife pond.

Hi, thanks for the fantastic video. I have used your pattern and have made some great boxes from clean pallet wood. One comment though is that you have a great voice and in my opinion it would suffice as far as sound is needed. No disrespect to any musicians but that repeated little tune gets old really quickly .

Fab!!! Love watching our bats at dusk. Sadly they fly into our neighbours bedroom window & their cat has had a few 😢 not sure where they are nesting ( maybe under neighbours eves) so if we build some box’s for them, would they move house? We are across the lane but they fly around our garden . Thank you Joel 🦇🙏

Can you use an old scaffolding plank to make a bat box

Do these boxes surface for a new timber frame house that requires bat box’s? Natural cedar clad so thinking of making cedar boxes. I take it a larger opening for long ear brown bats?

I’m going to get some bat boxes when I get my own home. Love these. How do the bats hang inside Joel?

I've thought about putting a few of these out, as i hear they help a lot with bugs (particularly mosquitoes). Does anybody have any experience with this? We're there any noticeable differences in your mosquito population?

I see that you grooved the landing area but didn't groove the interior of the house. Any reason why?

Hey! I don’t know if u have ever talked about this on your channel, but i would love to know What’s your opinion on natural pools? Can they have a similar benefits for the wildlife as well as beeing a place for swimming in your garden? :) great vids!

I dont have any suitable trees in the back so i will put them on my outbuilding, are the gaps not really small???

Surely the inside is too smooth for the bats to cling on to.

Can you put them on a sturdy pole? We've got an easy facing garden with a extension imminent which will mean only West or north facing walls. Already got a bat box, just want to optimise the location!

Great video. I didn't see any bat box kits available on your website. Would you consider selling the precut wood pieces in a kit (for those of us who are not mechanically inclined)?

how many bats will that box hold please. Thank you.

Does the box have to be under an eave? South facing for me is a gable end, is this going to be too exposed?

Joel, I want to build a wildlife pond, for the bats, but the garden is on a bit of a slope, any ideas? Cheers.

South or West? Or anything in-between?

Have you ever heard of a brad nailer . . .

I’m a bit confused because at the beginning of the video you say they need a clear entryway to enter the box, but then you suggest putting it up in a tree, where there will be branches and leaves etc., in the way. 🤷🏻‍♀️

Hi Joel, would it be ok to site the Bat box on an east facing wall ?

I had NO idea just how small Pipistrelle Bats are!!😲 There's a river across the lane from us and when I stand out there in the late evening I occasionally see a bat picking off insects hovering above the water. I'm only just able to watch it long enough to know that it's definitely a bat lol but I'm not sure what kind. It could be a Pipistrelle but it looks to be about the size of a Blackbird fledgling so perhaps too big? Either way, we still have Bats in the neighbourhood!!😁🦇 I only have Southeast and Northwest facing apexes as the highest points on my house. Do you think it would still be useful and warm enough for Bats if I put up some boxes?

Easier to just use a ruler and the point of screwdriver to scratch the wood

Will they keep the bats out of your house?

We are having problems with bats attacking and killing our chicken at night. They leave a vast trail of blood on the ground. I got its attack on video. We are leaving lights on, so that they would choose to leave. They are cute, but I choose my chickens 😢

Well it’s been 2 years…..have bats taken to the boxes as their homes?

Is this type of bat box good for Canadian winters?

Seems way to small..reading lots bat nesting box info.boards way too smooth inside.

Iv loads of bats in my area they have plenty of trees 🌳

Not a lot of room in them

Too small.

Omg are you instructing a 2 year old

How high do u have to hang them?