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Good people of the fediverse I have a question about bats and swallows.

We're building a carport. One end will be attached to a wall. The other end will rest on 6 brick pillars of about 3 meters high.

I have 2 nest boxes for barn swallows and 2 bat boxes.

I'd like to attach those to the pillars.

Now my questions:
1) Is it ok to put both up in the same area?
2) What would be the best side of the pillars to hang them from: facing in, out or sideways?

Thank you for your advice!

Chaque été, notre maison accueille une colonie de #chauve-souris. Je m'amuse à les compter au crépuscule lorsqu'elles quittent une à une leur abri situé derrière les gouttières. Il y en a probablement entre 50 et 100!
Aujourd'hui, j'en découvre une accrochée au mur, c'est inhabituel et exceptionnel de pouvoir l'approcher. Elle est à hauteur des prédateurs ...
Quelle espèce ? Jeune ou adulte? Vivante ou morte (il fait très très chaud) ?

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@tippitiwichet I can't top this pollinator photo taken by Chris Ecroyd. It's of a New Zealand Pekapeka-Tou-Poto (lesser short-tailed bat) pollinating a Pua-o-te Reinga (Dactylanthus taylorii), one of NZ's few parasitic plants. Chris helped to figure out that this weird plant was reliant on this weird bat for its pollination.

Pua-o-te Reinga is a threatened "nationally vulnerable" plant as it's dependent on the roots of old growth forest trees, its flowers are now eaten by introduced rats and possums, and it's now only pollinated by Pekapeka-Tou-Poto bats, which are themselves now rare and nationally vulnerable.

inaturalist.nz/observations/10