Bedroom bat

Imagine waking up to a strange sound and opening your eyes to see a bat flying around the bedroom over your head. That’s what happened to me one morning last week, and what an unpleasant awakening it was. No, I didn’t scream and run. Bats are creepy little critters, but I know they are usually harmless. They don’t get tangled in your hair or suck your blood.

I carefully opened my bedroom door and the outside door, then closed all the other doors, thinking the bat would fly out and leave through the outside door. Then I realized it would most likely fly down the hallway and go straight into the great room, where it would get trapped in the cathedral ceiling.

So, I put Plan B into action. I crept low to the floor for fear the bat would run into me, closed my bedroom door to confine it, opened the top of the windows without screens, and hid in the bathroom with the door open a couple of inches so I could watch. That crazy bat flew round and round in circles for over 20 minutes. It perched on the door hinge a few times in between, but it finally flew out the window.