Monthly Archives: November 2019

Another early Christmas present

We are helping with the Bats and Churches Project, who offered to buy us some bat detectors for using on church bat walks we said we had enough, so they offered to buy us an upmarket microphone, which displays calls … Continue reading

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Christmas comes early to the Bat Group

This is the time when we organise the buying of new equipment for next season, so there is a steady stream of the post. The cat eyes this with total disinterest until we got delivery of the new computer .We … Continue reading

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Catching Up

We are still catching up upon getting our bat records updated. Analysing sonograms and producing maps of area we had surveyed. We did this as we went along as much as possible but there is still lots to keep us … Continue reading

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Bat Boxes at Sandy Warren

Scheduled building work at The RSPB headquarters at Sandy Warren  means they have had a consultant in to survey the buildings and to make recommendations about what mitigation was needed before the work commences. The grounds staff were unaware of … Continue reading

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Bat Box check

We are monitoring a new site ,where bat boxes are being used as mitigation, Bob and Gwen joined the consultants and were delighted to find a total of 6 pips using the boxes.

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Web update

I have been updating the articles section of the website, adding articles up to the end of this year. This is still a work in progress but there is now lots to keep you busy over the winter months

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Tyrone talks to the Fellows at ZSL

Tyrone works for ZSL at Whipsnade. Among other things he works on the conservation of Natural Species. He has joined the Bat Group and has been the driving force for increasing our access to the Zoo.  We have achieved a … Continue reading

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Surveyors’ Meeting

Another busy year. Another busy meeting as we looked back at our work this year. We will spend the rest of the Winter finishing off this analysis. We now have a scary list of possible activity for nest year. Thanks … Continue reading

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New lock at hibernation site

When we replaced some boxes in one of out hibernacula we had to force he lock to get in. This week we replaced it. Thank you George.

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Data crunching

This year  we have collected a lot of data. Thanks to the Peersonic detectors and using auto lures when trapping.  Despite looking at thousands of sonograms we still have thousands left to look at. We don’t much trust auto ID … Continue reading

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