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Monthly Archives: September 2014
September Box check at Kings Wood
On Sunday Justin Tilley and family and Antonio Murano joined Bob in checking the boxes.Of the original boxes, by the end of the day only 4 had never had bats in.Of the 5 Le Fage boxes put up this year … Continue reading
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Walk at Swiss Garden
The Swiss Garden at Shuttleworth has recently undergone a dramatic transformation and the bat group was asked to do a bat walk there. Bob and Steve led the walk and heard common and soprano pipistrelles, Daubenton’s and brown long eared … Continue reading
Bat walks update
As the season draws to a close and the nights draw in we have been doing a series of bat walks for groups. The final Priory Bat walk has been and gone and like all the others this season has … Continue reading
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A sad ending for a bat
Bat carer Simon went to his allotment to dig some potatoes and found this sad sight. A common pipistrelle had got stuck on a plant – possibly Bristly Ox Tongue. This sometimes happened with young bats , and it … Continue reading
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A grand day out
Bob took a break from Bedfordshire’s bats to head down to Susex to help Daniel Whitby with a swarming survey. At this time of year bats are gathering at swarming sites to try to find a mate. The swarming sites … Continue reading
Another good news bat care story
The juvenile Noctule found in Sharnbrook is well on the way to being released. Noctules need a lot of space to fly and Soggy’ s house is too small. She took him down to Jan Ragg’s flight cage in Harlow … Continue reading
A good news bat care story
Dick and Geraldine were called out to a bat call on Sunday. Geraldine writes On Sunday afternoon, we collected a grounded bat from the Wilkinson’s store in Dunstable. The bat was discovered at the bottom of the staircase that leads … Continue reading
Hedj’s photos
Those of you who follow this blog will often see examples of Hedj Dollman’s bat photos, He has now begun to put his pictures up at https://www.facebook.com/hedj.dollman/media_set?set=a.10153543947708306.1073741882.649488305&type=1. Well worth a look and it’s not just bats
Triumph at Priory
Regular readers will now that the Nathusius at Priory have ben madly elusive this season. We pick them up on a detector but either they set a thunderstorm or a downpour on us, or they arrange for a Supermoon to … Continue reading