Monthly Archives: August 2016

The First Nathusius in a Beds Bat Box

Today Nicky and Danny were checking the boxes at Priory and found the first ever Nathusius Pipistrelle in a bat box. Better still one of them was a female – the first time we have ever had one in the … Continue reading

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Chute Farm

On Saturday night we trapped at Chute Farm which is part of the route of the Whipsnade survey. We picked up bats roosting in the toilet and Brown long eareds exploring one of the barns. We heard a lot of … Continue reading

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Tonight’s trapping is cancelled.

We are due to go to Priory trapping tonight, but the wind is blowing straight off the lake and is set to do so this evening. As we are unlikely to catch anything we are postponing this

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Castle Close Sharnbrook

On the first night of what promises to be a hectic fortnight we headed here to try some trapping. Several members of the Parish Council joined us. The wind meant the mist net caught nothing but we did catch soprano … Continue reading

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Bat care 1956 style

R Richard and Geraldine have just sent me an article from The Countyman published in Autumn 1956 .nsmail-28 Things were, how shall I say, different then. Anyone who knows bats may suffer from a number of sharp intakes of breath. … Continue reading

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Another whiskered site

We had done some preliminary surveys at a private wood near Maulden. We had heard very few bats, but these included Common and soprano pipistrelles, a passing Noctule and a Myotis bat. So with no great hope of excitement 6 … Continue reading

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