The Need for a Home

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October/November 1994
By Deanna Kawatski 
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One decision was to make bat houses. On Earth Day, local students constructed several; they resemble oversized bird houses on telephone-type poles. There are now a total of 45 houses at five different sites. Some of the larger ones will hold between 800 and 900 bats.

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However, as Chris stated, "Yuma bats using these houses has only been recorded once before in North America." So the community has held a collective breath, waiting and hoping. According to Chris, three or four bats were recently discovered in one house. Bat researchers will continue monitoring the situation next summer. Chris stressed that for the bats, "losing the church was a shock to the system." It would take some time for them to get settled into a new place.

Ah, yes. I know too well the feelings accompanying unexpected homelessness. Yet I also know the possibility of finding a new dwelling — a pursuit made more urgent by the presence of offspring. And if the new home happens to be in the midst of a caring community, so much the better.

Deanna Kawatski's book Wilderness Mother is available for $22.95 from Lyons & Burford Publishers at 212-620-9580.

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