30 August

A litte something about bats for the social media armchair experts. Yes you can make lots of noise to try to scare them away. You can see what that does in the picture, scares the bats, who all fly around lots, and then come back to land in the same trees. In Sydney when this same approach was tried, sometimes eventually the bats left, but then settled in a neighbouring park instead. It just kicked the can down the road. And it drives bats into peoples' backyards instead of the park. It's better for a town to localise the interruption in this way rather than have it spread all through the town. On top of all that, it's illegal to do it when they're giving birth. It stresses them. There were over 1000 dead baby bats this year. This is a highly endangered, protected species. There is no simple answer, apart from stop destroying their native habitat. That's why they're moving to public parks.