The weather in the southern part of Wisconsin has been pretty good lately. Starting Monday I'll be there sealing and popping tubes on homes that had too much snow on roofs to do any more than bid. Its gonna be an awesum bat season! Be careful out there fellas, its too early to get hurt.

High 20's is NOT my idea of good unless we are talking about ice fishing or hunting weather.

You silly northern boys....... lol

Still pretty cold out... Last year I had started late march...

Ive been doing them all winter on nicer days. When its real cold I dont go outside at all.

Nate your location says WI -- ???

It was a joke to Mike because he is in "North" central Wisconsin

Still too cold here for silicone to be workable and contact well. Going to do some cleanouts this week though.

Bob there are low temp products available,,,,(90's here)

Use Lexcel in cold weather. It works on wet or oily surfaces. You do have to keep tubes close to your body to get it to flow nice though

Try through the roof.....same product....different box to market to different audience. Cheaper.

The regional differences are interesting to hear about, like Vinke we are climbing into the 70's & 80's the last two weeks, but
even in the valley with those temps bats are still not emerging more than a handful hear and there at our survey sites. Looked
at a Townsend's big-eared bat colony the other day that approaches 500 before birthing, only 4-5 total bats in the building right
now. Up in the mountains around the valley and north where we work temps reaching 50's during the day but still not above 19 or 20
at night, no insect activity yet, so no exclusion up there. Have crickets and all other manner of "bugs" showing their faces down
here in the valley though.

Doing some other non roost bat exclusion this week for night roosting porch issues mostly where no bats are on the scene yet.

Ultima is also the same product at half the price, however lexcel is in a plastic tube, and ultima is in a cardboard tube. The cardboard tubes blow out the side when they are cold, or if they get wet. I hate going back down the ladder and back to the store because my stuff is junk. I dont use that much anyway, Ill use backer bar and seal over it most times.

Mike, if you think this March is good, you must have gone bonkers last year. It was twice as warm. ( Or half as cold, to you southern guys )

I did Paul. I really think this year will be better once it warms up more. Which is why I'm clearing my plate now. I a week its gonna be 40+ and we will be getting a steady stream of calls.

I'll tell our new gal to put Anytime on her list of referrals. We sometimes get bat calls out of our area. ( But then, you probably already know that )

Sure do Paul. Thanks a bunch!

Spent Thursday afternoon and all day Friday in my lift doing preliminary sealing on a hospital. It was 72 degrees.... started with a sweatshirt, but actually worked in a T-shirt from noon on. Now it's 33 degrees and snowing and sleeting. Typical March weather in Illinois.

Classic bat situation: I did an exclusion there about 10 years ago, as they had about 300 big browns roosting in the ceiling of the cardiac re-hab area. Bats would frequently get into the rooms and hallways. Gaps along the roofline cap (flashing) allowed entry over the walls, as there are spacers between the top of the bricks and the top 2x6 which the roofing wrapped over.

Installed deck screws every 18 inches around the entire structure (2 full days in a driveable boom) to pull the flashing against the bricks. No bats for ten years. New roof installed last fall..... you can guess: Bats inside the hospital within a month after new roof installation.

They called me last November after bat #6 found inside within a 2 week period. Inspected the structure and found the roofing company left the flashing gap exactly like it was when I performed the initial exclusion. Gaps all the way around again. The maintenance guy said he knew they would have problems again, as the roofers ignored his suggestion to eliminate the gap.

Luckily, the only place the bats are using is the exact spot as before over the cardiac area. Colony last fall was very small, maybe a dozen bats or so. Told them I couldn't do anything until warm weather due to proper adhesion and curing of sealants, but Friday was perfect.

I made it about 3/4ths of the way around, and the next warm-up will allow me to finish in about 8 more hours, including excluder installations. Last year was crazy with bat calls, and I have about 6 leftover from last fall that I couldn't get done due to the insane bat work schedule last year. Those will be first on the list for spring exclusions, after the hospital.

Now that is interesting info,,,,,,,I would have thought that the colony would have got that stop out of their minds,,,,