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Dutchie here. I haven't see these red LEDs become widespread although I do sometimes see dim green lights on bicycle paths. Another interesting regulation here
by dahwolf 3y ago
Dutchie here. I haven't see these red LEDs become widespread although I do sometimes see dim green lights on bicycle paths.
Another interesting regulation here is related to insulation. Small bats tend to get inside walls and under roof tops. As people are improving insulation en masse, this act may kill or displace these bats. So you have to check for them and make amends if they're there. A common and easy way is to attach a bat home to your house. Some of them are really cool:
https://media.s-bol.com/gJJMmEXxPyRr/781x1200.jpg https://media.s-bol.com/gJJMmEXxPyRr/781x1200.jpg
I love my little bat friends. During summer months I can time their forage session to the minute. Then I just watch them circle around the garden picking up the mosquitos.
- ChuckNorris89 3y ago>attach a bat home to your house Never knew these were a thing but it's exactly what I expected. Deserves a bat signal.
- doublesocket 3y agoWe built one into the gable end of our roof during renovation: https://imgur.io/Gc42NPn?r https://imgur.io/Gc42NPn?r (and added appropriately bat-wing shaped bargeboards)
- sfvisser 3y agoThat’s a very pretty house! What country do you live if I can ask and is this a common theme?
- doublesocket 3y agoThanks! We live in London. Quite a few properties around in this style. This is Edwardian, built around 1902.
- germinalphrase 3y agoDo bat houses require any kind of cleaning/maintenance?
- doublesocket 3y agoI asked this of our bat expert friend. Apparently not. The droppings, of which there won't be many for a small house, are quite dry and will naturally fall out of the opening.
- germinalphrase 3y agoGreat. Thank you for following up.
- Etrnl_President 3y ago[dead]
- WJW 3y agoUnrelated to bat lights, but a friend of mine who is having a house built in Utrecht mentions that all the homes in the new neighborhood will have integrated bat housing. I assume he means something like the "bat bricks" from https://www.ibstockbrick.co.uk/kevington/eco-products/ https://www.ibstockbrick.co.uk/kevington/eco-products/.
- consp 3y ago> I haven't see these red LEDs become widespread although That's because they aren't always needed. Only very specific spots pose a real danger. This location has them since 2015 (even 2014 I thought): https://www.autoblog.nl/nieuws/automobilisten-in-de-war-door-zeeuwse-hoerenrotonde-80857 https://www.autoblog.nl/nieuws/automobilisten-in-de-war-door... (in Dutch), location on OSM: https://www.openstreetmap.org/?mlat=51.34859&mlon=3.54388#map=17/51.34859/3.54388 https://www.openstreetmap.org/?mlat=51.34859&mlon=3.54388#ma... Everybody complained at first, now it's just a curiosity. The bats thrive though and don't get killed near the roundabout. The lights don't need to be everywhere and only on the spots where the bats fly over regularly and get hurt by traffic and/or the environment (by which I mean the stuff related to the road, called Straatmeubulair in Dutch).
- Fnoord 3y agoHeh, that part of Zeeland is referred to as Belgium by my friend from Zeeland (from near Goes). Thanks for linking it though. We were at vacation in Zeeland last summer and I wondered if we missed this (I think it would been cool to go there if its not far from route), but we were nowhere near there. I guess we didn't go to Belgium ;)
- zoover2020 3y agoZeeuws-Vlaanderen exists for a reason, no? ;-)