New Home for the Wildlife Part 1: Bat House

One of my Christmas presents last year, one that I'd asked for, was a bat house. We live within about a tenth of a mile of a creek so there is water and we have plenty of insects so there is plenty of food. Hopefully, with those things going for us, bats would take roost in my bat house. The challenge was where to mount it.  Ideally, a bat house would go on the side of a building at least 12 feet off the ground and facing south. It needs to be high enough that predators can't reach it and so that it gets direct sun during the day - the bats like it warm when they are sleeping. Unfortunately, with a one story house we don't have any exterior walls that high. The other choice would be to mount on a pole but with seven large, old cedar elms in front and back yards and with power lines running along the back fence there's not really anywhere to put one up.  Although the side of the chimney is high enough off the ground and faces south, the bat house is only a few feet above the surface of the roof so it remains to be seen whether the bats will feel safe enough to roost in it. Normally, early summer is when bats take residence in a new house so I guess we'll see in the next few months. BTW, thanks to my son Chris for helping mount the bat house.