Monthly Archives: February 2015

Another action point from the committee meeting completed

Bats are protected under UK and European Law and there have been some recent reports of successful prosecutions. The police can also help without prosecution being involved. The Bedfordshire Police investigated a case last year of two sets of people … Continue reading

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Kings Wood Roost hunt 2

The weather forecast for Sunday was decidedly dodgy, but the intrepid team managed to complete the area which had been selected and get bet back to the car just as it began to rain and managed to eat some cake. … Continue reading

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Roost Visitor Training Day

Simon dropped by first thing to pick up coffee making stuff and the screen and projector for this morning’s Roost Visitors’ course. Not long after there was a plaintive call. Simon has a very modern laptop which doesn’t have a … Continue reading

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Analysing 6 years of data from the Priory Bat box scheme

The bat group has always said that there is little point collecting data if no attempt is made to analyse it. For the last six year Danny Fellman has single handedly checked the boxes he installed over the years at … Continue reading

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Coming soon – New flight cage

We have just ordered a polytunnel which we are going to use to test fly bats that are in our care. We have chosen this as it does not need planing permission and one of our members has land we … Continue reading

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Hibernation surveys – a final tally

We completed our final round if hibernation surveys last weekend. We checked 17 different sites with differing degrees of access difficulty.The surveys were led by an appropriately qualified group member. Each day involves spending about 7 hours in cold damp … Continue reading

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Migration of bat in Canada, and to Canada by bat group member

Toby Thorne first got involved with the bat group when he was 15. He has always been keen on bats and helped out on a lot of surveys and took some brilliant photos, even when he was at Oxford. He … Continue reading

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Talks

After Bob’s hectic time of late, it was Jude’s turn. On Wednesday night Bob took her up to the Wyboston WI where she gave a talk.The ladies were very welcoming and had laid on a terrific spread. We couldn’t stop … Continue reading

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Center Park Boxes

Fresh from his triumph at Kings Wood, Bob headed of to Center Parcs to put up the ten boxes he had had to postpone installing when he was  ill at he end of last year. When he got there at … Continue reading

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Kings Wood Bat Boxes

On Sunday, with the help of new member Michelle, put up the last three bat boxes at Kings Wood. Having finished Bob then retaliated on some brambles which had cut him to pieces by clearing a track towards some of … Continue reading

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