“They’re still trying to find where they should be roosting,” says Paige Erickson-McGee, Habitat Acquisition Trust’s stewardship program manager.The regional land trust group is educating people on what to do and expect when bats may be closer to us than usual.If you find one, dead or alive, you should never touch it with your bare hands, HAT says, as bats are known to carry rabies.
“If folks come into close contact with a bat, we want to make sure you’re wearing leather gloves or you’re using a tool to move any kind of bat if it’s on the ground,” says Erickson-McGee. “Ideally, people leave the bats where they are. They might be there for a day or two, but typically they move on.
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