Monthly Archives: April 2012

Sonogram workshop

Headed off to Randall’s Farm yesterday to do a sonogram workshop for Bat Group members. Thanks to the farm for hosting us when we had a last minute change of venue. After a series of talks, people had a chance … Continue reading

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Talk for Sight Concern

Friday saw four of us going to a meeting of Luton Sight Concern’s Friday club.  They had asked us to do a talk. This was the first talk I had ever done for a visually impaired group and I spent … Continue reading

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Luton Trefoil group

Another talk last night, this time to another Luton Trefoil group. Two of those present had been at the talk we did at Slaughter’s Wood last year, and I was doing more or less the same talk, but they didn’t … Continue reading

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Talk at Wootton Lower School

We were invited to speak to sixty youngsters at Wootton Lower School who were doing a topic on animals and the night. We had a good time and were able to answer most of the questions they asked us. I … Continue reading

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White lined vampires in Trinidad,

Regular readers may have noticed that the blog went quiet for a bit there. Four of us headed off to Trinidad on another Trinibats adventure – of which doubtless more later. In the meantime, Daniel Hargreaves managed to get some … Continue reading

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Bat Group AGM

Had a very successful AGM. Amtony Mould scared us to death with his tales of bat expeditions in Tasmania  and the Philippines  which basically consisted of “we waded upstream for 3 hours and climbed into  mountains for another 6 hours … Continue reading

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Year of the Bat Poster

2011 and 2012 were designated the Year of the Bat The  organisers have just produced this lovely poster.      

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First Stockgrove Park survey of the season.

April 1st is the official start of the bat season and we made a good start yesterday when we did out first Stockgrove Park  survey. We had five species of bat – soprano and common pipistrelles, brown long eared bats … Continue reading

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