Hey, this is Outside In, I'm Nate Hegey.

This summer, I moved into a house on 5 acres along the Rocky Mountain Front, and I'm

telling you, it is wild.

The wind sometimes gusts at hurricane forces.

There are wolves in the mountains nearby.

Even like anybody who lives out in the boonies or in the backwoods' nose, things are always

trying to get in.

We have mice in the barn, wasps that sneak in through the cracks in the windowsills.

A few weeks ago, my wife and I were tucked into bed, when suddenly I woke up to the sound

of fluttering wings.

At first I thought it was just a big moth, or a lot of moths here.

I turned on the lights, and it was a bat flying in circles over our bed.

And before I could do anything about it, the bat found a little hole underneath a wooden

beam and disappeared into the house.

I want to see how many bats are living in my house.

And I think there's a bat on my window, and I can hear a click to be clacking, so I'm

going to go try to see if I can see them.

Sure enough, underneath a loose piece of siding on my house, there was a whole colony of bats

staring at me.

You can see a little bat pee, kind of flowing down one shingle, there's like 20 of them

in there.

That's crazy.

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