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A purpose built bat roost

One of our keen members is having a new house on the site of an old one. There were a few bats in the attic and she has had a splendid bat house built as mitigation. Yesterday Bob went with … Continue reading →

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Surveys 2016

Finally I have got the dates of regular surveys listed. You can check them out at https://www.bedsbatgroup.org.uk/wordpress/?page_id=9683

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How soon I forget!

It seemed a good idea to put a new page under the projects area of the website. I wrote the new page, pasted in the new dates and then realised I had forgotten how to enter it onto the drop … Continue reading →

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Wind Turbine at Sandy Warren

  Saturday’s Guardian had an article about the RSPB headquarters at Sandy having installed a new wind turbine. http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2016/feb/06/rspb-plans-bat-friendly-wind-turbine Most wind turbine damage seems to be caused when the blades are moving slowly, and this turbine has been built to … Continue reading →

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Center Parcs report for 2016 is finished

We have an arrangement with EMTEC Ecology to monitor the Woburn Center Parks site including the bat boxes. This gives us access to what is a very intewre4sting site. The downside is that fthe more data we collect the longer … Continue reading →

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Catching up. Part 2

Today I made a start on the website, though there is not yet anythinhg much to see. Last Summer our calendar got hacked, so we had to find a new way of putting up dates for 2016. In the end, … Continue reading →

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Catching up

We have been very busy since we got back from Zambia at the beginning of November and the blog has suffered as a result. I have now started to update the website but it will be while until I get … Continue reading →

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Last King’s Wood survey of the year.

To be honest, it was more in hope than in expectation that the last box check of the season was carried out. We should not have been so negative. Sixteen brown long eareds and a common pipistrelle were in residence … Continue reading →

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Now you see us , now you don’t

It is a while since I posted an update. This is because the website disappeared. An attempt was made to hack one of our plug ins and our host moved the site for safety’s sake.Not being that computer literate I … Continue reading →

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Committee meeting

We had a very busy committee meting, once again fortified by Dick’s lovely gluten free sponges. Lisa Worledge was there from BCT to renew the Partnership agreement and we had a very full agenda, as we discussed plans for next … Continue reading →

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