Something appears to be living on our bedroom roof. Been woken by donks, clattering and scratching noises - only during the night. Any ideas what it/they can be? I'm thinking bats maybe.

Yes we will get someone to take a look after Songkran.

Something appears to be living on our bedroom roof. Been woken by donks, clattering and scratching noises - only during the night. Any ideas what it/they can be? I'm thinking bats maybe.

Yes we will get someone to take a look after Songkran.

With the scratching sounds more than likely a rat,

Could be bats, also may be bees/wasps. In the UK I had a wasps nest in my roof, just above my bedroom. At night it sounded like a load of people walking across gravel. When I got the pest contol out to kill the nest, I had a look in the loft a week or so later. It was massive. They must have been there ages without me noticing.

I don't think it can be a rat, unless rats can scale walls? The puzzle is that this is only going on during night hours, nothing at all during daylight hours. We do get some bats around our car-port at dusk but they look like such little things. Can't believe that they can make such noise? Are there big bats in Thailand? (yikes )

We had one in the house a few years bat, I mean back. It had a 1'/30cm wingspan

Edited April 13, 200917 yr by Mosha

maybe a rat - we had one in our roof and I could've sworn there was a cat up there with all the noise it made. One quick way to make sure is put one of those sticky mouse/rat traps, and you'll find out soon enough..... we stuck one up there and the next morning the maid stuck her head into manhole to see if we caught anything and got a bit of a shock to have an ugly big rat staring back at her

Yes rats can scale walls and are more active at night. Rats are the most likely culprit.

Rats can scale just about anything. The noisy culprits in my home are squirrels though (Cambodian Striped Squirrels, to be exact). Amazing how much noise these small critters can make.

rats climb anything; we had rats in our voliares (large bird cages) and we put nests on poles, they climbed them; we hung with string, they climbed those; they are nocturnal and make tons of noise; if there were bats u would see them at evening going in and out from an opening somehwere...

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Mmm thanks for those postings. Sounds like the big money is now on Rats - yikes. Shall get someone to take a look after Songkran and see what can be done.

Forgot to add-

We had no problem with rats until I fitted gutters and down pipes, they climbed up the pipes until I fitted flaps on the bottom of the pipes, it let them out but stopped their return.

Rats always use the same run, whether it is an overhanging tree or in my situation down pipes, a jump of three feet is easy for the little/big critters.