Newfie, I've had a family of little bats under my carport for years. This is the first summer they didn't return. Stupid drought.
I adore bats - we, too, lost one of our usual families this year - our pair of ducks that usually spend the summer on our pond, raising their family for that year, were no-shows --- I keep telling myself they just found another place to go, not that anything bad happened to them.