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First Henlow survey

Another  survey on Wednesday – seems ages since two things happened  at once. Richard and Geraldine did a walk around a site in Henlow They had Noctule, mainly Soprano Pips, a few Common Pips, Daubentons, and possibly other Myotis. They also … Continue reading →

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First Stotfold Mill Survey

Good to getting in some more surveys. John and Sara visited Stotfold Mill on Tuesday and had a good showing of nbats. As well as soprano and commonjpips they also heard some Mytois bats

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A welcome return trip to Sandy Warren

Our first survey here since last year last night. The bats were out en masse and we recorded common and soprano pipss, Brown long eared bats, Mytois spp, Barbastelle Serotines and Noctules  

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Stockgrove

Last night Geraldine and Co braved the rain again at Stockgrove Geraldine wrote: “Last night’s bat survey at Stockgrove was amazing. We are restricted to how many people are allowed to be there still, which was the only downside, oh … Continue reading →

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Trying to unite pup with mum

Dave was awayy so it was Becky the rescue last night, The rain foiled her attempt “First pup I’ve ever collected. Desperately tried to reunite it with Mum this evening, but without knowing exactly where the roost entrance was and … Continue reading →

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Lakeside wasn’t rained off

Geraldine wrote: “Took part in the Soprano Pipistrelle maternity roost bat survey last night, it rained, but hungry bats who also have pups (pups are what baby bats are called) to feed didn’t let that put them off. I had … Continue reading →

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Not good news for this badly injured bat

All these stories of good news about bat care may give the impression that bat care is a fluffy easy activity. Ala, this can not be the case.as the case below shows We were contacted by a vet yesterday. This … Continue reading →

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British Island Bats

A lot of Bat Groups run their own research projects. This is a major new publication outlining some of this work. It has an article about our soprano roost and two other by bat group members, It is well worth … Continue reading →

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Wind stops play

A very windy night, so it was dewcided to cancel Stockgrove. Last time it was this windy a tree came down in Bakers Wood. So we played safe.

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Another pip pup

Another pip rescued This time in Luton. Photo by Tyrone It#s hard to ID pups at this age but then Kari posted a picture on Facebook which shows  the difference clearly   Its all down to muzzle shape. The one … Continue reading →

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