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Monthly Archives: August 2013
Swineshead revisited
Last night, we headed back to Swineshead wood with the aim of catching and perhaps tagging one of the Myotis bats we heard earlier in the year. We were joined by Daniel Hargreaves who stopped off on his way to … Continue reading
First National Nathusius conference.
For more than 20 years Jon Russ has been interested in the rare Nathusius bat. He set up a website and encouraged bat workers to let him have any records. Nathusius bats call lower that common pipistrelles, but it can … Continue reading
A lovelty thank you card
When we went up to Priory Park on Tuesday, we dropped into the office and there hanging on a pin board was a lovely thank you card from Beauchamp school where The Park Rangers and the Bat Group ran a … Continue reading
Harp trapping at Priory Park
Last night we descended on Priory Country Park in an attempt to catch the Nathusius’ that we have heard . Of course this didn’t happen, but we had a fun night. On reaching the site were given the sight and … Continue reading
Thirty one Noctules in a roost
“It proved to be another exciting night at Stockgrove last night. After a quiet start along the route a few unidentified bat sounds at 8.20 as we approached the low roast but what a surprise we had. For the second … Continue reading
First Natterer’s found in Kings Wood Box check
Yesterday we did another check of the King’s Wood boxes and found rather more bats. The highlight of the day as finding our first Natterer’s – a group of 6 juveniles, four males and two … Continue reading
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The naked truth about bats
Regular readers will be familiar with the name of bat group member Hedj Dollman He is a professional photographer who has taken some fantastic pictures of bats and bat group activities. In his spare time he is involved in bat … Continue reading
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Wardown Park survey
Geraldine reports We had a good turn out last night, a total of 5 bat group members, two of them being new recruits to the group. We began the survey by walking around the area close to the museum building … Continue reading
Another Brandt’s at Kings Wood.
Bob and Jenni headed off last night for another evening of harp trapping. It was a quiet evening but into the harp trap flew a Brandt’s bat ( probably) Bob managed to get a poo sample for analysis which will … Continue reading
Sad news about the juvenile Noctule
Regular readers will know that we had a Noctule in care3 who gave birth to a son. Mum was successfully released last week, but Junior had not taken to flying at all and we were concerned that he had shown … Continue reading