Chances are that they are coming from your attic or somewhere under the eves on your roof. If you stand outside around dusk you will see the adults flying out. When they are newborn they cling to their mothers when they go out to eat at night. As they get bigger and interfer with the mothers flying they are kept in a group nursery area. I suppose finding and putting them back in the nursery area is the best for them. But, bats have a history of being carriers of rabies. It's your call as to what to do, but read about them online so you know the health risk involved. I ended up with two babies inside of my house and I picked them up with gloves and put them on a pinetree next to where the bats fly out of my attic. They climbed up the tree. I don't know if the mothers were able to recover them or not, but I haven't seen them. Then I took the gloves off and burned them in a burn barrel.

The color that best describes my yard and the entire state of Oklahoma right now would be winter wheat. My lawn is that color and most of my gardens too. A few very hardy evergreen trees and shrubs, native junipers and my little pines are the only things green and the Nadinas have green and purple leaves with red berries. The Nandina Bambina is lovely with burgundy, golds, purples, yellows and scarlet. The ornamental grasses were lovely in the Fall, but now after hard freezes, extended periods of cold and 35-65 MPH winds, they look kinda puny. Their plumes beat to heck. The area around my Koi pond looks pretty good. I have lost some of my tea roses. I have a small patch of St. Augustine grass that I am babying along. We are still in a severe drought. Clouds roll over the state everyday, raining and snowing in every state around us, but not here. But now Texas, Arkansas, Kansas, & Louisiana have also issued state wide Burn Bans. Deadly fires erupting everywhere and with extremely hig winds, it is really bad. Fires are burning in every county surrounding the one I live in. The Burn bans issued state wide since September includes no Bar-B-Queing, and no Fireworks. They are still allowing the sell of fireworks, but it is against the law to shoot them off. Now how dumb is that???? The past week, several bad fires were started by fireworks. Still people are careless and foolish. My neighbor down the road has been shooting off rockets, Roman Candles and other really cool fireworks for the past several days. Winds are fierce again today. This morning I finally called our Volunteer Fire Dept and they told me to call the sheriff's office, so I did. Haven't heard another "pop" since. I hope that ends that. It is pretty scarey. Something like 30 or more homes have burned in December alone, and about 70,000 acres have burned since September, and many of the fires burned to within a few miles from here. Because of the drought and because of the emminent danger of wildfires, I am having to water every day to keep the yard damp. It isn't easy for me right now to drag a heavy garden hose all over this hill. I have to use with my walking stick. Major drag. . . It is so dry that some water wells have gone dry around the state, including town wells. It is really bad. No rain on our forecast, either. I wish you guys would post some photos of your winter yard scenes so I can see how it looks in the Carolinas in the winter, PLEASE???? From what you have named, sounds like you have a lot of pretty and interesting things you are still growing & enjoying in your gardens. I am G-R-E-E-N with garden envy. (grin) ~Annie

The sun has to hit mine directly before it will turn off, and it turns back on when it's in the shadow of the trees. Some have a light sensitivity adjustment and some have interchangeable lens of different colors for that purpose (not mine).

Dark sky compliance is much appreciated by professional and amateur astronomers as well as local wildlife. I suggest picking a compliant contemporary style fixture you love for the front door area, then other fixtures from the same manufacturer's line for the rest. You can search " dark sky lighting site:houzz.com " in google. This article may be of interest: https://www.houzz.com/magazine/landscape-lighting-that-doesnt-wake-the-birds-stsetivw-vs~76419325