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Just down the road from us there used to be an old boarding school. It's recently been demolished, the land having been sold for lots of money to enable property developers to move in.

Before the school was knocked down we noticed that a small building was being erected in a corner of the grounds. It's down in a dip that has problems with flooding so we thought it might be a pumping station, but the odd thing is that it doesn't have a door. Not at ground level anyway. It does have a solar panel on the roof but no windows.

Anyway last week I found out what it is: a bat house.

There were bats living in the school and because they are protected (and they include a rare species) a new home had to be built for them before any demolition happened. It's bigger than it looks in the photo; it's about the size of a garage, so very spacious det res in highly sought-after area.

Nice.