Monthly Archives: March 2019

Getting ready fr the new seasson 3:-Number crunching

The quiet season is drawing to a close. So there has been  a last spasm of number crunching as Bob has been looking at our trapping data from 2012 to 2018 Graph to show weight of captured bats.The red circle … Continue reading

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Visit to Whipsnade

As well as hibernation surveys, we used to do other detector surveys at Whipsnade when Kevin Frediani worked there. When he left they fizzled out. When we did the original surveys we had to record onto an mp3 player, which … Continue reading

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Grounded bat at Shuttleworth

Last week’s warm weather seems to have lured bats out of hibernation, but the worsening weather seems to have taken it’s toll on some adventurous bats. We had a call this  morning from Shuttleworth College. One of our carers is … Continue reading

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Gearing Up for the Bat Season 2

Have also found time to order some new bat group clothing from Positive Branding   Very quick turn round, so some of us will be flaunting new kit come the season

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Getting geared up for the bat season I

As the number of bats seen during the day increases we are busy getting geared up for the beginning of the season in April.  Have fixed the days of most of our regular surveys (see survey section) e.g. Stockgrove

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