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Bat flies into car
Doing driven surveys for Pinpont Bat we have been struck by how adept bats are at avoiding cars Last night was the exception that proved the rule. Two of our members were driving home in the rain when to their … Continue reading
Lakeside Survey 24th May
Last night eight of us gathered to do the roost count with one eye on the ominous rain clouds. We counted out 930 bats before the rain started, at which points the bats decided feeding in the rain was not … Continue reading
GDPR
We seem to have been dealing with this forever, every time we think we have finished another potential problem arises. We are doing our best to comply but advice is often conflicting, so we are still working on the final … Continue reading
Bat in a dormouse box
At today’s Dormouse survey A brown long eared bat was found in one of the boxes. This is a fairly infrequent events we were very pleased to get the record.
Friday 18th May
John and Bob did another Pinpoint Bat expedition. We realised that Dick sets his thresholds of the Peersonic with almost identical results as Bob. To inve4stigate which threshold is better. John and Bob used two different thresholds. Now all(?) that … Continue reading
Bat Walk at Priory Park
We did a walk for the friends of Putnoe Wood and the Mowslebury Hill Fort. Therewere lots of bats about and we picked up a few Nathusius pipistrelles. We shall have another go at trapping there later in the season.
Stockgrove Survey 14th May
Another successful night at Stockgrove.As well as lots of common and soprano pips, Daubenton’s and Noctules. We found several bats in boxes. We were able to identify and count out several brown long eareds. Another box had us stumped. We knew … Continue reading
Harrold Odell Box check
As with Kings Wood there were no bats in the boxes but lots of blue tits, including one with a clutch of eleven eggs Picture https://www.lovegardenbirds.co.uk/blog/attracting-blue-tits/
First Studham Survey of 2018
This was the first time on this new survey. A strange night as despite very varied habitat in which you would have thought that there would be good diversity, we heard only soprano and common pips. Be interesting to see … Continue reading
First Sandy Warren survey of 2018
12 people joined the survey on Tuesday and a fascinating evening it was. We heard our first Nathusius and a large number of big bats, most identifiable as Serotines and Noctules at the gatehouse. For the first time we made … Continue reading