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Webweaver: Jude Hirstwood
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Last Updated:October 2008
Surveys
Projects
Newsletter
Webweaver: Jude Hirstwood
The newsletter Bats in Beds is produced quarterly and sent to all bat group members. Back issues can be obtained by sending £1-50 per issue to:
Ann de Winter,
142 Bedford Road,
Barton le Cley,
Bedfordshire MK45 4LR.
Please make sure to tell us which issue(s) you want.
We introduced black and white photos in the January 2005 issue. Follow the links to find colour photos, additional material that relates to articles or the articles themselves. ( Reprinted articles marked with * )
2008
Volume 82 July 2008Volume 81 April 2008
Volume 80 January 2008
2007
2006
Volume 75 October 2006Volume 74 July 2006Volume 73 April 2006 Volume 72 January 2006
2005
Volume 71 October 2005
Volume 70 July 2005
Volume 69 April 2005
Volume 68 January 2005
Cover Picture Bedfordshire Bat Group at the Bedford River Festival (c) Jude Hirstwood
Articles All I want for Christmas . Bat News Summer surveys,walks and events Bats care Sonogram workshop Mud eating bats Nutrition or Detoxification: Why Bats Visit Mineral Licks of the Amazonian Rainforest. Bechstein's in Surrey Cover Picture Twentieth birthday card drawn by bat group member Elaine Rigby Articles Pipistrelles Progress Bats in Madhya Pradesh see recent picture Bats in Panama Bats in Ghana see recent pictures Bat News Meetings and courses Updates on surveys For the record - some interesting records for 2008 Worlds noisiest bat Click here for more Bats as eco warriors Click here for more Another Daubenton tests positive for EBLV2 Click here for BCT press release Cover picture Epauletted bats at Skusasa Camp Botswana (c) Joan Childs 2007 
Articles
Bat records
2007-2008 Hibernation overview
The February hibernation check
A visit to Box Mine
The pipistrelle maternity roost
New survey at Harrold Odell Country Park
New survey at Priory Country Park
Bat News
Welcome to Gideon Best
Bat crime conviction
Magnetic sense in chinese bats
Bat's in China Bristol university website)
White nose syndrome in America
Robobat power point and the ChiRoPing project
Australian bat death and global warming
Cover picture
Scanning electron micrograph of a pipistrelle (c) S Gschmeissner. Used with permission
Note to Bat group members
Several items were removed at the 11th hour from this issue but still got listed on the contents page - the items on global warming and australian fruit bats an the latest EBLV2 case will be held over until the April 2008 issue.
Articles
The bat group is twenty in 2008
Natural England Roost Visitors course
Count Bat - Bat detector training Pictures
Where to find bat recordings on the web
Mouse eared bats bats in Egypt
Egyptian fruit bats at Shepreth Wild Animal Park
Another dead Bat - Lucien Freud
New bat accommodation for hibernating bats in Bedfordshire
Bat news
Bat wins national competition (see cover photo)
The bizarre sex life of the african bat bug
Vampire bats in Gran Canaria --a classic case of misreporting
Bat related crime - New BCT report
Fruit bats have a menstrual cycle
AGM competition
If you need another picture of squirrel saving the sun drawing, (download it from the website I found it on at http://www.turtletrack.org/ColoringBook/squirrel.jpg (in case that site goes off line I have pasted a version into a word document for you). Bring your entries with you to the AGM or post it so it reaches Jude by March 30th 2008
Cover picture 
Face painting at Queen's Park Count Bat event
(c) Emily Doyle
Articles
Why the subscription is going up
The Annual Report
Michele in Malaysia's Mulu Caves
Bats at Malaysia's Gomantong caves and Poring Springs .
Habitat regs made simpler
How Io ia got its name
Bat news
The summer that never was
Can bats avoid hangovers?
Bats and Marberg's disease
A new project for next year
Ideas for Christmas presents a book of bat poems
Cover picture
fruit bat by Omar Mohammed,
drawn at the Count Bat "Bats are Brilliant Event"
April 2007
Articles
The serotine project
How bats feed
Bulldog bats in Brazil Video of bulldog bats in flight
A "pond bat" in Bedfordshire click here for a photo
Bat News
What feeds on bats?
Bat aerodynamics click here for New Scientist article
Self inflating bat Click here for another example
Bats, wind turbines and migration routes
Survey Updates
A Nathusius' pipistrelle in Beds
Herts Noctules make it to YouTube click here to see them.
Serendipity- a web site of of taxonomic trivia
Cover Picture
Brown long eared bat (c) Simon Joynes 2007 
Articles
Hanging out at Haynes
Who's in a name?
Underneath the arches - Bats in the Transpantanal
Joan in Nepal
A Tibetan bat folktale
Hibernation Updates
Bat News
Count bat is getting bigger Click here for the latest
Bats and aircraft design Click here for link to New Scientist where you can see video footage of bats flying in a wind tunnel
Grant updates
Bats are lazy murderous sex pests
The new bat group committee
Cover Picture
Caraça (c) Bob Cornes
Articles
Phil Richardson on The Curious Case of the Pipistrelles in the Night
*Bedfordshire's first ever albino bat record. Photo
(Bat group in Brazil with pictures)
Photogallery to accompany this article
Big bats and little bats in Trinidad and Tobago Click here for pictures
*Maned Wolves and Myotis at Caraça.
( More of that Brazil trip with pictures)
Photogallery to accompany this article
The fate of bats in the Accra Zoo redevelopment
A personal view on the quest for the elusive barbastelle
Gilbert White has more to say on bats
Are bats football supporters?
Bat News
The Bat Conservation Trust conference report
BCT and bat groups
Bat Group Diary
Count Bat comes to Bedfordshire
[UK bats ] - a new discussion forum
To infinity and beyond - plans for 2007.
Events Click here for events fixed so far.
Cover Picture
Whisky a hand reared captive bat learning to fly
(c) Alan Piggot
Articles
The curious case of the pipistrelle in the night time
*The Bat Carer's story - Part 2 Learning to fly
(Click here for a photogallery tour of Linda's set up )
"Bats not angels" - bats in a local church
More curious incidents of bats in the night
- National Bat helpline
Bats feel for their prey
Gilbert White on Bats
Joan in Hungary
Bat News
Bat Group Diary
Bat walks
Survey updates - pipistrelles, Whipsnade , Stockgrove, woodland survey
(Click here for a photogallery of the 2006 woodland survey
Bats related to horses
Vampires recognise their prey's breathing
Babbling bats
Project Saving Starbeard
BCT/ Defra
Cover Pictures Brown long eared and Common Pipistrelle bats (c) Bob Cornes
Editorial
Articles
*Bringing up baby The Bat Carer's Tale
The eclipse in Ghana
Ann in Costa Rica
Joan in Venezuela
*The Whipsnade Monitoring Project 2005 results (with additional illustrations)
Recent photos bat pictures featured in this issue
Bat News
Visit to John Adams Roost Click here for photogallery
BBC Springwatch Click here for photogallery
Woodland Survey
Whipsnade Walk Click here for photogallery
Pipistrelle Survey
Stockgrove Country Park survey
Other news
Links to websites mentioned in Vol 74
*Identifying bats from quite a long way away
*6 figure grid references the easy way
A bat is born - bat development
A bat is born - The Bat Poet
A Ghanaian perspective on excluding bats
"No-one truly loves a bat" A 1960s viewpoint
The Whipsnade Hibernaculum Project - a historical aside
Bat News
Winter Indoor meeting round up
Whipsnade member's day. Click here for photogallery
Hibernation check update
Bat box update
Insect syringes for sampling bat blood
The truth behind Brickhill Bertie's unfeasibly large genitalia
Randy bats head for the pub
Fruit bats a reservoir for Ebola virus?
Fruit back taxonomy
The world's oldest bat?
More on Whipsnade
(Dear BCT, apologies for ungloved hand, perhaps you could sponsor the bat group for a trip to Honduras and some VERY VERY tough gloves. )
Bat News
Bat boxes
BCT conference update wind turbines, gloves and stuff
Horseshoes and SARS
Bat group diary
Bat group activities - walks, talks, visits
Nathusius pipistrelles in Bedfordshire
Events
Winter bat box survey
Winter hibernaculum checks
Whipsnade members afternoon
Contacts
Links to websites mentioned in Volume 72
Cover Photo Northern Blossom Bat (c) Phil Richardson
Bat research in the 1920s
Sex and the single bat
Bat spells for Halloween
Bats in Wales
Barbastelle radiotracking August 2005 Photogallery
Links to websites mentioned in Volume 71
Bats and wind turbines
*A walk on the Wildside - Whipsnade Walk
Click here to read the Whipsnade Walk article
That damned elusive:barbastelle
1.The history of barbastelle in Bedfordshire
2.This year's quest -a new site
3.Notes of a radio tracker
How broad is our church?
The mouse oracle of Baule .
Bat News
BCT sunrise and sunset survey 2005
Frog eating bats
Survey updates
Bat group diary
BCT say bat numbers are rising
Are local pipistrelle numbers declining?
New noctule roost at Haynes Church End?
Vampire bat athletes
Links to websites mentioned in Volume 70
Bats in Trees
Bats in Houses
Bats in Caves
*Mark Twain on bats
*The Pipistrelle Roost Project
Description and dates for 2005
Stockgrove Country Park
Description and dates for 2005
Photo tour of Stockgrove
Warm bats
Flying doctors
Bat identification guide
Bat group diary
Hibernaculum checking highlights
Photo tour of the Aspley Guise Hibernaculum
Photo tour of the Whipsnade hibernacula
Inside the tunnel
Events
Contacts
Links to websites mentioned in Volume 69
The Biology of Hibernation
*The Whipsnade Hibernaculum Project
Photo tour of the Whipsnade hibernacula
Bats in dormouse boxes
Bat evolution
Bat group diary
Bats in New Zealand
Bats in Poland by Phil Richardson
Events
Contacts
Links to websites mentioned in Volume 68
