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Cover Pictures

These are the cover illustrations of the newsletters listed here

Volume 85 April 2009

lesser horseshoes

Lesser horseshoe photograph (c) Ian Davidson Watt

Volume 84 January 2009

vampire(c) Ross Baker and Lynne Whitfield. Surrey Bat Group 2008. Taken on holiday in Brazil

Volume 83 October 2008

(c) Jude HIrstwood. Bat costumes at the Bedford River Festival

Twentieth birthday card drawn by bat group member Elaine Rigby

Volume 81 April 2008 ... epilautted bats

Epauletted bats at Skusasa Camp Botswana (c) Joan Childs 2007

Volume 80 January 2008

bat face sem

Scanning electron micrograph of a pipistrelle (c) S Gschmeissner. Used with permission

 

Volume 79 October 2007face

 

 

Face painting at Queen's Park Count Bat event (c) Emily Doyle

Volume 78 July 2007

omar

Bat drawing by Omar drawn at "Bats are Brilliant" Count Bat event

 

Volume 77 April 2007

brown long eared bat

Volume 76 January 2007

caraca monastery

Vorown long eared bat (c) Simon Joynes 2007

 

Volume 75 April 2007

pipistrelle

"Whisky" a hand reared pipistrelle . Photo (c) Alan Piggott

Volume 74 January 2007common pipistrelle

Volume 73 April 2006

members day

Volume 72 January 2006

cover 2006

Volume 71 October 2005

norther blossom bat

Volume 70 July 2005

barbastelle

Volume 69 April 2005

stockgrove park

 

 

 

 

Newsletter

The newsletter Bats in Beds is produced quarterly and sent to all bat group members. Back issues can be obtained by sending £2-00per issue to:

Tony Aldhous, 16 Judite Gardens, Potton, SG19 2RJ

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. 

 


A new Noctule in town ?The Luton Bat Project ? Bats in Mind ? The Kempston Bat Box Project ? A new bat species for Britain ?Bat memories The Echo ?The problem with the pancake bat ?Why bat pollinated plants are oversexed ?Mass bat mortality in India ? Bat walks and surveys ?Applied echolocation ? The Social Call ?What’s on this summer
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Volume 90 July 2010

Articles

A new Noctule in town
The Luton Bat Project
Bats in Mind
The Kempston Bat Box Project
Bat memories
 

The Echo
The problem with the pancake bat
Why bat pollinated plants are oversexed
Mass bat mortality in India
Bat walks and surveys
Applied echolocation
 


Volume 89 April 2010

Articles

The Luton Bat Project

Bats in Mind

Priory Bat Box Project ( Danny has also written an article reviewing the project to date

Bats and (broom) sticks

The very hungry serotine ( see recent pictures)

Hibernation survey( see recent pictures)

The Echo

Update on white nose syndrome

East of Englad conference

New research on echolocation


Volume 88 January 2010

Articles
The National Bat Conference
VIPs at Whipsnade. (Sight Concern's report on our Summer bat walk)

A Five Star Hibernaculum at 5 Star Luton Hoo


Priory Park Bat boxes - five to a bed

Wildlife Travel Trip to Hungary 2009 Part 2. Bat watching for the lazy

What Salvador Dali, Great Tits and |Ground Squirrels have in common

The Echo

Summer Mistnetting

Other summer events, bat walks, stalls & talks

BatCare Team update

Newsgroup update
Indoor meetings and AGM



Volume 85 April 2009

Articles
Lesser Horseshoes – the Hunt is on
Roost visitor training
Bat pollination.
Stockwood Survey
Sumptuous Sopranos
Hibernation update
A new hibernation site
Sheltered accommodation 1 Priory Park( pdf)
Sheltered accommodation 2 - Marlborough Court Kempston( pdf)
BCT to visit Queen's Park pdf

Bat News
Silent bats that aren't
Update on bat walks and events
Weather Reports
White nose syndrome update
Bat group jolly
Play cafe at Kempston pdf
. ..and more


Volume 84 January 2009

Articles

Priory Country Park

Bat group project reaches a wider audience

May London Zoo trip

Bat Care

Vampires vampires feeding on a foolish human

National Geographic film of feeding vampires

Help the bird club with tawny owl records where to send records of Tawny Owls

Bat News

White nose syndrome update more from the White Nose Syndrome strategy meeting

Particoloured bats

RSPCA report on bat rehabilitation

Help Bedfordshire Bird club get records of tawny owls

wind turbines and bat mortality

2009 AGM

Hungarian Bat Trip organised by the Wildlife Trust View pdf of leaflet


Volume 83 October 2008

Articles

Adams Roost visit

Desperately seeking serotines

Icehouses

Building bat boxes

All I want for Christmas

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Bat News

An erythristic bat

Summer surveys,walks and events

Bats care

Bedford River Festival

Sonogram workshop

Bat in a bra

Mud eating bats Nutrition or Detoxification: Why Bats Visit Mineral Licks of the Amazonian Rainforest.

Bechstein's in Surrey

Bat box building at Queen's Park lower school

A rainy walk at Priory


Volume 82 July 2008

Volume 78 July 2007

Articles

The serotine project

How bats feed

Bulldog bats in Brazil Video of bulldog bats in flight

Count Bat events

Bats are brilliant

The Count Bat walk

A "pond bat" in Bedfordshire click here for a photo
Bat News

What feeds on bats?

magpies,

otters

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

Bats as aircraft insignia.

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Volume 77 April 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

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Volume 76 January 2007

Articles

Phil Richardson on The Curious Case of the Pipistrelles in the Night

Bedfordshire's first ever albino bat record

"*Do you wanna see a vampire"

(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

Volume 75 October 2006

    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

    *Hibernation prediction

     

    Bat News

    Bat Group Diary

    Bat walks

    Survey updates -, 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

     

Articles

Bat records- why they matter

*Identifying bats from quite a long way away

*The new record sheet

*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

Events


Volume 72 January 2006

Articles

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

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Volume 71 October 2005

 

Articles

Bat research in the 1920s
Sex and the single bat
Bat spells for Halloween
Bats in Wales
Barbastelle radiotracking August 2005 Photogallery

Bat News

Survey updates.
Read about pipistrelles and sparrowhawks here
Bat group diary
Bat group summer activities - walks, talks, visits
Tamir in Honduras
Winter bat box survey
Winter hibernaculum checks
Events

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Volume 70 July 2005 Barbastelle Special

 

 

Editorial

Articles

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


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Volume 69 April 2005 Roost Special

 

Articles

Bats in Trees
Bats in Houses
Bats in Caves
Mark Twain on bats
The Pipistrelle Roost Project
Stockgrove Country Park
Photo tour of Stockgrove

Bat News

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

 

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Volume 68 January 2005 Hibernation Special

Editorial handover

Articles

The Biology of Hibernation
The Whipsnade Hibernaculum Project
Photo tour of the Whipsnade hibernacula

Bat News

Bats in dormouse boxes
Bat evolution
Bat group diary
Bats in New Zealand
Bats in Poland by Phil Richardson

Events

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