Jonathan Dickenson State Park - Hobe Sound, FL

This State Park consists of hundreds of acres of beautiful Florida landscape, wilderness and wildlife. Deer, hundreds of species of birds, insects, alligators, reptiles, bats and humans all enjoy this wonderful facility.

Unfortunately, bats chose to live in one of the restroom facilities. A large amount of bat guano and associated smell, kept humans from using the restrooms. (Besides, the bats refused to put the seats down!)

A previous "in-house" attempt to exclude the bats had failed and Friends of Bats was called on to help.

III Method used Friends of Bats decided to use a different approach. We installed a bat house with a top open entry at the main entrance point to the facility that the bats were using (see photo). After a few days we installed our exclusion devices and within 3 days the bat house was full. For the safety of the bats, the bathouse was removed from the structure and installed on a pole system 200 feet away. Once all the bats were out of the structure, we proceeded to clean and sanitize the voids and then seal the building.

The best part of this job was working 5 miles into the Park, away from the hustle and bustle of crowds.

The worst part was that it was right at the edge of the river. We had to keep one eye on the river banks at all times!

 

This job was completed in 2 work days.