Monthly Archives: April 2019

More number crunching

In 2018 we put more emphasis on repeated walked or driven transects e.g. Sandy Warren, Pegnut Wood, Whipsnade Zoo We plan to continue this trend in 2019 and already have volunteers to do repeated surveys in an area.  

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First Lakeside Survey

Despite low temperatures the soprano pips were leaving their roost and flying around. We counted 52 of them brave the chill and swoop about catching food. Again it was good to be joined by new members and have a go … Continue reading

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First Kings Wood Survey of 2019

Four intrepid bat group members did the first of the season’s Kings Wood survey on the morning after the AGM.They walked off the cake by covering 11.7Km and got round all the boxes. Two of them had bats, one had … Continue reading

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agm 2019

Some of the gang got together on Saturday for this. There was even a surfit of cake (even by our gluttous standards) Photos by Hedj and Kel   As usual Jo was in charge of raffle tickets and we raised … Continue reading

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More number crunching

One of our ongoing projects is Pinpoint Bat. In its second year the kind of survey carried out changed a bit , with more surveys covering an area two or three times a season. Once again we got some very … Continue reading

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New bookmark

One of the things we were doing over the winter was updating the old bookmark , as the contact details of a number of organisations including our own has changed. Our friendly local printers Fidelity worked their usual magic and … Continue reading

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And the season starts

Gwen writes Not a bad start to the survey season at Stockgrove last night Bats in 4 boxes (although they refused to come out of 2! – Brown long-eared & soprano pips were the ones playing ball with getting identified. … Continue reading

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Another visit to Whipsnade

We went up to Whipsade to recover the SM4 detector left in the Bear den.  While there we spotted a snoozing Daubenton’s bat

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Bat Training Course

Just before the season kicked off,* we had a joint cat care session with the North Bucks Bat Group , lewd and hosted by Rhona who is a member of both bat groups. We took cake and Bob did a … Continue reading

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