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The plans of mice and men

 When the boxes were unpacked, three of them were damaged making them, as they say “Unfit for purpose”, Our thanks to NHBS for sending us replacements within  a week

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Home hunting

Bob had a meeting with the manager of the barbastelle woodland on April  20th to identify possible sites for the new bat boxes. He wanted to identify where coppicing was planned. Coppicing is an important tool in wood management, so … Continue reading

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Bat Box Project

We are planning a new bat box project, with permission of the landowner, after  PhD student Kieron O’Malley found a new large barbastelle roost in a Bedfordshire wo0d We ordered 10 large bat boxes back in January because we knew … Continue reading

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Lakeside 1 12th May

First Lakeside survey of the season, so course it had to be cold and windy . Seven of the group,  the maximum allowed braved the weather ,which was more than the soprano pipistrelles. Only two of them made a brief … Continue reading

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Stockgrove survey

More bats were in the boxes at Stockgrove than the were at Harrold Oddell but didn’t leave them , probably because it was chilly. Some of the b0xes had pipistrelles in them. Others couldn’t be identified because they snuggled so  … Continue reading

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Donation

Haven’t posted for ages as we have been so busy now that Covid restrictions have finally been lifted. Not as busy as the amazing folk at the Ukrainian  Bat Rehabilitation Center in war torn Kharviv whose heroic efforts have left … Continue reading

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Sandy survey

Sara , who usually reports on these surveys,  is very pregnant and decided to miss out on this one so Bob has written a report. “I have finished processing results from the survey, which involved more bats than I had … Continue reading

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First Harrold Odell survey – a success

After a break of several years we finally got back to survey Harrold Odell.It was worth the wait.Natasha says “Managed to do a walked survey at HOCP Friday as the weather thankfully played ball this week. Lots of soprano as … Continue reading

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The weather is against us but Nat West has finally got their act tgether

The cold/rain played havoc with our plans, .The first survey had to be called off and Wednesday’s survey was so cold the bats stayed in their roost. But we had one triumph ,after four years battling with struggling with Nat … Continue reading

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Geraldine writes: “I’ve got my sad face on today, we deputised for Soggy last night at the Lakeside maternity roost site. It was rather chilly, 9C, didn’t see any bat food flying near the roost, and the bats in there … Continue reading

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