Clean Up at Neches River NWR

I am going back in time a few weeks to an evening while sitting on the porch Mexican free tail bats start flying up to the screen eating bugs. I am watching, thinking this is really cool. Then one bat hits the screen in front of me where there is a hole that I have been meaning to repair. Yes, it was just big enough for her to fall through! Then splat, yes splat was the sound she made when she hit the deck. She laid there for a minute looking at me... me looking at her and my dash to close the door because I'm not sharing the cabin with a bat. Like them, don't want to live with them. So, Stella Luna, I call her ( my nieces loved this story about a bat named Stella Luna, when they were young and we would  read it at bedtime every time I was there) starts to fly around looking for a way out. I opened the door and one of her buddies flies in. So now I have 2 bats that want to move in. I get a flat cardboard box and like a shield hold it up and herd them to the door. They finally fly out and back to eating bugs off the screen. I used duct tape to plug the hole until I can get to town to buy a patch kit.
I started with this because it seems that the bats like to roost over my front door. I did know this until the other morning while having a cup of coffee at 6:30 am as the sun was coming up, I watched the bats eating bugs off the screen. Then up over the door, and.... where are they? It appears that if they are tired and to far from the main roost and can't get back, my door frame is a good spot to crash until night. So now before I go out the door I look like an Embassy Guard with a mirror looking up over the door like I was checking the underside of a car for  Bomb. But they are there only once in awhile. I still have the back way off the porch if I'm not sure.
So each day is different, and never dull.