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The mysterious case of the Myotis in the night
During the Bechstein’s project last week, we only caught Myotis bats once. This was surprising as we had found them in three of the woods earlier in the season. So last night Bob and Bill went back to the first … Continue reading →
Bechstein’s Project round 3 Day 3
After another busy day checking the results from the previous night. more bat group members headed off to another wood. This was the most demanding physically as the wood was on a steep slope, so lugging the equipment was a … Continue reading →
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The elusive barbastelle…
..lived up to its name again last night. On previous visits we had heard many barbastelle passes, so we headed off last night to try to get a tag on. and set up a double high and triple high net. … Continue reading →
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Stockgrove Country Park survey
Angie, Stockgrove Park Co-ordinator writes: “Last night’s survey was very rewarding. Tree roost 4 was home to a Brown long eared who came out at 8.35, box 11 was also home to a Brown Long eared but this one sneaked … Continue reading →
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Stockgrove Survey – a visit from some barbastelles
Angie says “It was a very pleasant evening. The first bat, a Soprano was heard at 8.39, just on the first path into Bakers wood. The first Noctule was heard at 8.51, again in Bakers wood with several more passes … Continue reading →
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A night in Wytham Woods
Bob and Jude got asked to join a group of bat folk at Wytham Woods in Oxford. This is one of the most heavily studied woods in the country. It has no less than 1300 bird boxes which are commandeered … Continue reading →
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Lakeside survey
What a blustery night it was. There were hardly any birds flying and the occasional valiant swift was making heavy weather of flight. Tree leaves plummeted to the group on a regular basis and those of us at the front … Continue reading →
First Stockgrove Park survey of the season.
April 1st is the official start of the bat season and we made a good start yesterday when we did out first Stockgrove Park survey. We had five species of bat – soprano and common pipistrelles, brown long eared bats … Continue reading →
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Hibernating Bats Photogallery
I’ve been looking through the bat group archive of photos of hibernating bats which we have collected over the years. Hibernating bats are very difficult to photograph as bats must not be disturbed and of course they do tend to … Continue reading →
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Barbastelle at Harrold Odell Country Park
We always get a backlog of sound recordings from surveys which wait until Winter to get analysed. Kel took a break from refurbishing her house to analyse a recording from Harold Odell Country Park made last year and found we … Continue reading →