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Last Bat walk of the season at Priory Park

On Friday 7th September the last walk of the Priory Park season of walks took place. Once again the event was fully booked. On a beautiful clear starry night, bats were abundant, Noctules, Daubenton’s and both species of pip flew … Continue reading →

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The mysterious case of the Myotis in the night

During the Bechstein’s project last week, we only caught Myotis bats once. This was surprising as we had found them in three of the woods earlier in the season. So last night Bob and Bill  went back to the first … Continue reading →

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Bechstein’s survey Round 3 Day 5

The final day dawned and bleary eyed Bob and Lia made final preparations. The survey involved another key, so there was some nervousness. Bob had to collect the key from the Woodworks festival which gave Bob a chance to see … Continue reading →

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Bechstein’s Project Round 3 day 4

By day 4, tiredness was beginning to take hold.  Bob, Jude and Lia’s early morning ( l1am) conversation was at times hilarious after the third very late night, with the ability to remember what things were called fading fast.  WE … Continue reading →

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Bechstein’s Project round 3 Day 3

After another busy day checking the results from the previous night. more bat group members headed off to another wood. This was the most demanding physically as the wood was on a steep slope, so lugging the equipment was a … Continue reading →

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Bechstein’s Project Round 3, Day 2.

The day was spent checking equipment, planning the evening logistics, looking at sound recordings, checking video recordings and plugging  a vast number of battery chargers throughout the house. More cake was made  and then headed off to the next wood … Continue reading →

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Bechstein’s Project, Round three. Day 1

Lia came up from Bristol for an intensive 5 day survey of woods in Bedfordshire.She bought with her a small mountain of kit: harp traps, songmeters, autobats,video camera, infra red light,crammed into her car. One of the first jobs on … Continue reading →

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Mist netting in Luton

Several of our members works as consultants, and as the season has been hectic for them can rarely get out to bat group surveys. Martin is one of these unlucky souls. He had a mist netting licence for ages now, … Continue reading →

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The elusive barbastelle…

..lived up to its name again last night. On previous visits  we had heard many barbastelle passes, so we headed off last night to  try to get a tag on. and set up a double high and triple high net. … Continue reading →

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The Lakeside survey 16th August

Soggy, the lakeside co-ordinator, was convinced that this night would be the peak number for the soprano roost. The bats were anthropomorphically speaking, aware that she was not present, and so kept their numbers down. “Just” the 1100. In addition … Continue reading →

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