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Saturday night at the Chiroptera.

Posted on December 12, 2012 by batsinbeds

Did something very different on Saturday night, went to the first performance of Kathy Hinde’s Vocal Migrations. Regular readers of this blog will know that Kathy contacted us  earlier this year and we organised a bat walk for the choir … Continue reading →

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Vocal Migrations – a work in process

Posted on December 12, 2012 by batsinbeds

Did something very different n Saturday night, ent to the first performance of Kathy Hinde’s Visual Migrations. Regular readers of this blog will know that Kathy contacted us  earlier this year and we organised a bat walk for the choir … Continue reading →

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Bat event at Stockwood Discovery Centre this Saturday

Posted on December 6, 2012 by batsinbeds

Another group is ofering to fund raise for us. In November I told you about a talk I did for Luton National Citizen Se rvice.https://www.bedsbatgroup.org.uk/wordpress/?p=6747T.   Since then the group has been planning an event to be held at Stockwood … Continue reading →

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Bat caught in a storm

Posted on December 4, 2012 by batsinbeds

Towards the end of November we had some very windy nights, one of which brought down a particular tree branch. A passerby the next day noticed a bat lying on the ground nearby and Colin went to collect it. It … Continue reading →

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Thanks to the Pulloxhill Brownies

Posted on December 4, 2012 by batsinbeds

In October we did a talk for the Pulloxhill Brownies and this morning a cheque for £50 arrived as a donation to the bat group. This money was raised during a bat drive fundraising event. Unfortunately, there was no photo … Continue reading →

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Vocal Migrations – a bat based musical event

Posted on December 1, 2012 by batsinbeds

  Earlier this Autumn we did a walk for Bedford Cultural Arts at the request of Kathy Hinde. She has designed a new work based on the ways bats echolocate. The first performance is coming up soon. The Chair of … Continue reading →

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More giraffes

Posted on November 27, 2012 by batsinbeds

  We went to do another box building session today and were once again greeted by a giraffe, and then we realised that just like last week, there were two of them. After I had done my talk Danny and … Continue reading →

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South East Bat Conference

Posted on November 25, 2012 by batsinbeds

Yesterday some of us went along to the SE Bat Conference, even thou we are not i the SE groupig of bat groups. However, we do work with both Hets and Middlesec and North BUcks and we promised to behave … Continue reading →

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Some bats are still active

Posted on November 23, 2012 by batsinbeds

Despite the dreadful weather, we have had several sightings of bats flying in daylight in the last week. Presumably they are taking a last minute opportunity to try to catch food. If you see a bat flying (in Bedfordshire) please … Continue reading →

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Threat to European funding for wildlife conservation

Posted on November 23, 2012 by batsinbeds

A letter has been published in today’s “The Times” about the threat to funding of NGOs involved in wildlife conservation by the EU Signatories are major Wildlife NGOS, including BCT, http://www.scribd.com/doc/114196936/Letter-in-The-Times-from-conservation-NGOs-re-farmers-EU-wildlife-budget  

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