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This is just one of a number of stunning photos we received from Amabasa Aluiziah taken in Accra Ghana. Regular visitors to this site will have already found his two articles on bats in Accra. 
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Recent pictures 
The pictures here are waiting to be moved into photogalleries. They are roosting here for the moment until we have time to find them a more permanent home
More pictures of Bedfordshire bats in the Bats in Beds pages.
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A bumper update for postings
On National Moth and Bat night we caught this female Natterer's Bat just as we were packing up after an almost bat free night .(c) Melissa Banthorpe |
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Mistnetting in a Luton wood, we caught this female brown long eared ( again just as we were packing the nets away (c) Bob Cornes |
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Went mistnetting with the Willife Trust on a briliantly clear cold starlit night and caught this female Natterer's (c) Henry Stanier |
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This beautiful noctule was found grounded in Slip End Luton. She has a damaged wing and we are keeping her in captivity to give it time to heal
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| Master photographer Daniel Hargreaaveshas been on his travels again, this time to Trinidad. Here are Lophostoma brasiliense and Desmondus rotundus | ||
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One of the most successful surveys we have done recently is a joint venture with the North Bucks Bat Group. to investigate Rushmere which has recently been acquired by the Greensand Trust. We have found a sizeable roost there Photo (c) Angie Cornwell |
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| Surrey Bat Group came up to visit the Wimpole barbastelles . Photo (c) |Derek Smith Surrey Bat Group | ||
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The icehouse we repaired two years ago is now proving to be an excellent hibernation site with 24 bats resident in January 2010. . Some were nestled in cracks, some like the ones below ad moved into bat bricks and others had moved into the boxes we had provided Photos (c) Bob Cornes |
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We are always emphasising that bats are not the monsters some make them out to be. When we saw the first two pictures below, we wondered if we were wrong. This was a very hungry serotine brought into care over the winter. He was absolutely ravenous, but once fed as the third picture shows, he became a different beast all together . (c)Photos by Robert Chapman |
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| Jonathan Durwood spotted this Daubenton's bat flaunting itself on the 2009 December hibernation check
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| Ann De Winter has been on holiday again and met these white lined sac winged bats . while in Peru. She met some none bat species which we include here because they are so good we have granted them honorary mammal status | ||
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Pygmy anteater
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This Natterer's was photographed in a mist net by Henry Stanier in the seconds before it was removed. |
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Derek Smith of the Surrey Bat Group took this picture of a Bechstein's bat |
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This Nathusius was found injured in Essex. Bob Cornes was lucky enough to photograph it. |
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This horseshoe was caught in a mist net during a holiday in Hungary . -just as it had caught some dinner. Henry Stanier took these photos of predator and prey Documenting this amazing trip is my task for the Winter. There will be more information later Click here for a taster of what we saw. Click here for the January newsletter article |
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This serotine was hand netted from its roost. We radiotagged her and followed her adventures for 10 days More |
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Daniel Hargreaves has given access to his wonderful collection of bat photos from all over the world. You can see them on his facebook page. This is a photo of Centurio senex, the wrinkle faced bat. |
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| These photos of a juvenile barbastelle were taken by Toby Thorne when we did some mist netting in August View more of Toby's photos on Flickr |
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Surrey Bat Group's Derek Smith has been at it again. This photo is of a captive bat lurking in his cage waiting for breakfast
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This photo is another example of the Smith family 's photographic skill. This time it is Derek's daughter Rebecca, who has been photographing tomb bats.
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These photos were taken by Daniel Hargreaves of a particoloured bat which was found in London and rehabiltated in the Herts and Middx flight cage . Read the article he wrote us for the July 2009 issue o the newsletter ( PDF file) |
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This heart stopping photo is one of a number taken by Beds and North Bucks Bat group member Toby Thorne, using intra red photography. Click here to read how he did it . For more of Toby's photos go is his web gallery on flickr |
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| Cambridgeshire Bat Group's Chris Vine sent us this photo of a Daubenton's bat | ||
The Wildlife Trust is organising a bat holiday in Hungary in Summer 2009. These are a couple of photos the organisers took when they went there in 2008. Click here for more details of this mouthwatering holiday |
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Usually it is Derek Smith from the Surrey Bat Group who takes sickeningly good photos. But this time it is Ross Baker and Lynn Whitfield, who have just returned from a holiday in Braziil with these breathtaking photos of a vampire bat. We are very grateful for their permission to put them here. |
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Closer to home, Jon Clark has been taking photographs of the bats that circle in his Bedfordshire garden |
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| Not only that but we also radiotagged our first ever serotine and found her roost (c) Jude Hirstwood (This bat is actually one we tagged we week before with the Herts bat group)
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Meanwhile Surrey were also finding new species -and caught a Bechstein's bat (c) Derek Smith  |
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While mist netting we caught a pipistrelle which showed its appreciation at being captured in typical pipistrelle fashion (look closely) (c) Bob Cornes |
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. She amazed us all by producing a pup 
