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An Apology

Posted on March 23, 2015 by batsinbeds

Regular readers of this section may be concerned that nothing seems to be happepning at the moment. Nothing could be further from the truth, but at the moment I am trying to shoe horn everything that has happened since December … Continue reading →

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Another sucessful Kings Wood Roost Hunt.

Posted on March 8, 2015 by batsinbeds

Seven brave/foolhardy souls headed out to another section of Kings Wood today and found a total of 50 more trees before the rain came. Each tree was photographed, gp-sed and tagged Because several of those who went have been on … Continue reading →

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Bedfordshire Wildlife Rescue- More

Posted on March 6, 2015 by batsinbeds

Sam has sent me a photo which goes the “hair” which was tangled round yesterday’s bat’s wing. You can just make it it on its right wing

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Hurrah for Bedfordshire Wildlife Rescue

Posted on March 5, 2015 by batsinbeds

Over the years we have had a lot of support from Sam Bedford at Bedfordshire Wildlife Rescue, who has always been generous in giving the group advice – especially in the early days of bat care. We used to meet … Continue reading →

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Good news about breathable roof membranes

Posted on March 3, 2015 by batsinbeds

Stacey Waring did a PhD on the effect of breathable roof membranes which showed just how dangerous they are to bats. She had crowdfunded future research https://www.bedsbatgroup.org.uk/wordpress/?p=9659   In this months Update Natural England have confirmed they will not authorise … Continue reading →

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Another action point from the committee meeting completed

Posted on February 27, 2015 by batsinbeds

Bats are protected under UK and European Law and there have been some recent reports of successful prosecutions. The police can also help without prosecution being involved. The Bedfordshire Police investigated a case last year of two sets of people … Continue reading →

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Kings Wood Roost hunt 2

Posted on February 23, 2015 by batsinbeds

The weather forecast for Sunday was decidedly dodgy, but the intrepid team managed to complete the area which had been selected and get bet back to the car just as it began to rain and managed to eat some cake. … Continue reading →

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Roost Visitor Training Day

Posted on February 21, 2015 by batsinbeds

Simon dropped by first thing to pick up coffee making stuff and the screen and projector for this morning’s Roost Visitors’ course. Not long after there was a plaintive call. Simon has a very modern laptop which doesn’t have a … Continue reading →

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Analysing 6 years of data from the Priory Bat box scheme

Posted on February 19, 2015 by batsinbeds

The bat group has always said that there is little point collecting data if no attempt is made to analyse it. For the last six year Danny Fellman has single handedly checked the boxes he installed over the years at … Continue reading →

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Coming soon – New flight cage

Posted on February 18, 2015 by batsinbeds

We have just ordered a polytunnel which we are going to use to test fly bats that are in our care. We have chosen this as it does not need planing permission and one of our members has land we … Continue reading →

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