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Southill Church Bioblitz

Posted on May 12, 2019 by batsinbeds

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

Posted on May 11, 2019 by batsinbeds

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

Posted on May 10, 2019 by batsinbeds

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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Sandy Survey Tuesday 12th

Posted on May 9, 2019 by batsinbeds

First survey of the year. Good range of bats. Had good view of barbastelle showing off. Lots of pips and also serotine and a good display of Noctules at the Gatehouse. Had some RSPB staff with us, who enjoyed the … Continue reading →

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Rain stops play at Studham

Posted on May 9, 2019 by batsinbeds

First Studham survey on Wednesday. Geraldine reports: Sadly we were unable to complete the survey at Studham on Wednesday night due to rain.However we did have a few passes by Common Pipistrelles before the wet weather stopped play. We checked … Continue reading →

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Kings Wood Bat Box survey

Posted on May 5, 2019 by batsinbeds

Often we see no bats in the boxes in May because of the above beasties which take over the boxes. This year they were there an masse but one box did have Brown long eareds in. This gave injecte fo0lk … Continue reading →

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More number crunching

Posted on April 13, 2019 by batsinbeds

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

Posted on April 11, 2019 by batsinbeds

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

Posted on April 9, 2019 by batsinbeds

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

Posted on April 8, 2019 by batsinbeds

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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