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Harrold Odell Box check

First bat box check of the season at Harrold Odell Country Park. Well I say bat box, but this time round all we found were some bird nests and a thankfully sleepy hornet.Hedj set a new record for coming down … Continue reading →

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The Bat Cave is open for Business

Last night was the official opening of the Bat Group Bat Cave. Soggy has worked long an hard to develop this project and has been helped by a  team of volunteers to get it ready. Last night we had the … Continue reading →

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A trip to the privately owned part of Baker’s Wood

As part of the Greater Stockgrove Project, Bob was keen to have a look at the part of Baker’s Wood which is in private ownership. Having obtained the contact details of the owners, he arranged to look at the site … Continue reading →

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The bat recording of a lifetime

Bob and I have been listening to bats for over twenty years, but last night was a new experience for us in Britain. We took the Echometer Touch out with us because Bob wanted some calls for a course he … Continue reading →

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Kings Wood Box check

This is the first time we have checked the boxes in April and it coincided with a visit from a Canadian bat worker who is in England for a month. Bob and Jude met her in Nicaragua and jumped at … Continue reading →

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More excitement at Stockgrove.

After the excitement of the Nathusius cal at Stockgrove on Monday, Bob and Jude went back on Tuesday night to have another listen. We had no luck with Nathusius but the Noctule were making some very strange social calls. On … Continue reading →

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A surprise find at the first Stockgrove survey of the year

Eleven of us turned out for the first Stockgrove survey and Dick and Geraldine took delight in returning Angie, whose knee has now recovered, back the reins The man group split into two in order to check the newly installed … Continue reading →

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Testing automatic analysis software

We are somewhat luddite and view automatic ID with a healthy degree of scepticism. When Jude sent her Echometer to be updated for the latest version of the ipad software, it came back with their automatic ID installed for free. … Continue reading →

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Lakeside survey

On Thursday seven members of the bat group staked out the soprano pipistrelle roost and found 15 bats were in residence We also set up two detectors to record elsewhere on the site On checking the recordings we found  Noctules, … Continue reading →

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Bat Group AGM

On Friday night we held the bat group AGM. We were very pleased with the turn out considering we had has twenty apologies from members who could not attend. We began the evening with the matters that have to be … Continue reading →

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