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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 foundĀ  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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The season officially starts here

Tie was hen the bat group went quiet between October and the beginning of the bat season. This is no longer the case as regular readers will know. Nonetheless the regulars have a spring in their steps knowing that today … Continue reading →

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Greater Stockgrove Project

On Friday afternoon, Bob and I took Steve and Fee Parker to have a look at potential sites for trapping for the Greater Stockgrove Project in August. Bob introduced them to an unlikely roost used by some Noctules last year. … Continue reading →

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Harrold Odell Roost Hunt

On the day after the first day of the Flight cage manufacture Hedj and Kel were out again this timeĀ  to Harrold Odell to do the final roost hunt, ably abetted by Viv, Malcolm and Jo.  

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The new flight cage

Back in February we told you we were planing a new flight cage https://www.bedsbatgroup.org.uk/wordpress/?p=10039. Soggy has been busy this month on erecting it. On 14th March she posted on Facebook The bat cave is up and when the weather in … Continue reading →

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