Monthly Archives: May 2019

River Survey Tuesday 28th May

  Very successful evening being quite quiet in the middle ( urban) section. The beginning and end more than made up for it. Lots of Noctules and common pips. The latter swooping over the river in large numbers, picked out … Continue reading

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Stockgrove Survey 27th May

Message from Gwen “Very quiet on yesterday’s Stockgrove survey, only two boxes had bats in (both brown long-eared) but we did have something a bit different, one of the tree roosts had a couple of squirrels bedding down in it!” … Continue reading

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Return to Whipsnade Zoo

Photo ZSL/   After a rather frustrating week , some of the group returned to Whipsnade Zoo to do the survey which was rained off earlier in the month. Tonight luck held . It didn’t rain , so no lurking … Continue reading

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Church emergence survey

Photo WH Breed On the 24th we revisited Westoning Church to do an emergence survey to see if the Natterer’s were still there. Several of the group gathered as dusk fell, leaning against gravestones to see what came out. No … Continue reading

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The elusive Nathusius

As other Bat Groups report catching them, we have yet again come up empty handed. The Nathusius below, looking smug, was caught last year. We will try again later this year

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Begwary Brook

did a trapping survey here on 16th May, hoping for a Nathusius and guess what we didn’t catch one. Hey ho

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Stockgrove Monday 13th May

A rain free night at last and a really profitable one. Once again the Daubenton’s over the lake were in short supply, but we heard barbastelle and serotines as well as the usual common and soprano pips. Brown long eared … Continue reading

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Southill Church Bioblitz

The Bedfordshire Natural History Society carried out a Bioblitz at Southill Church today. Bob went along as the Bat Recorder to check whether brown long eared bats were still roosting. Of bats there was no sign, but they may have … Continue reading

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Rain stops play at Whipsnade

We have been excited by recent developments in our relationship with Whipsnade Zoo and had our first of a series of surveys at Whipsnade last night. A crack team of Bat Group members , taking with them the video camera … Continue reading

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Lakeside Survey Thursday 9th May

We eyed the weather forecast with trepidation as rain was forecast and we wanted to give two people a chance to hand net, but fortune was on our side and the rain held off (more or less)  so we were … Continue reading

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