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Trying out the Pinpoint Bat equipment.
We had 2 Peersonics out on the first Stockgrove survey with two threshold settings, one at -36 db which recorded 334 calls of which 309 had bats (92%), and the other at -39db which had 402 calls of which 372 … Continue reading
Pinpoint Bat
We have spent a lot 0f time recently getting ready for our new members project Pinpoint Bat. We have now put all the equipment together, including record sheets and a mall clipboard not show here. Bob has been busy … Continue reading
Roost Visitor Trainers
Congratulations to Danny Fellman and Aiden Matthews who just passed Natural England’s Training the Trainers Course for Roost Visitor Training. This means as well as training members for class licences we will be able to provide training for Roost Visitors.
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Spring is here
Hurrah Spring is in the air, not long now till the beginning of the Bat season. Bob took time off from planning pinpoint bat to have a walk in a private wood (with permission) to look for possible roost sites. … Continue reading
Final hibernation survey of 2017
As the snow fell albeit gently, the brave souls of the bat group headed out into dark and dank spaces to look for bats., fortified by flapjacks and cake. Once again we had a bumper haul. The total for the … Continue reading
2015 data beaten into submission
Finally it is done and the 2015 data has been verified. We had over 1200 records. We have a system where this is concentrated , whereby one species records at one six figure grid reference counts as one record, but … Continue reading
Pinpoint Bat makes Progress
This May we are announcing a major new initiative in Bedfordshire . We are buying over a thousand pounds of equipment ( including a significant donation from two members) to allow members to make their own full spectrum bat recordings … Continue reading
The mysterious case of the fluorescent bat.
An American student is doing a PHD on white nose syndrome in bats. This a disease which is causing major deaths in the Unites States. It is now known to be caused by a fungus Pseudogymnoascus destructans. This fungus is … Continue reading
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January Hibernation Survey
We were saved the snow and were able to do the hibernation survey safely. Despite the weather we got more bats than the record breaker last January when we cound 207 bats. This time we managed 208. The species distribution … Continue reading
You might think we’ve been hibernating but …
There have been few posts of late, but we have been very busy honest. This is the time of year we try to collate all the data we have collected and transfer this to our database as well as producing … Continue reading