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Common pipistrelle roost – Update

Posted on July 8, 2012 by batsinbeds

Earlier this year we reported an important anniversary – 25 years of observing one common pipistrelle roost. https://www.bedsbatgroup.org.uk/wordpress/?p=5755 When we visited in May there were very few bats present, but more came to join the group as the months wore … Continue reading →

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Lakeside Survey

Posted on July 8, 2012 by batsinbeds

On Thursday we waited with excitement to see what had happened to the numbers at the soprano pipistrelle roost. Would they have increased further? Would the bats have given birth to their pup?. It was a warm night with lots … Continue reading →

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New book on British Bat Calls

Posted on July 5, 2012 by batsinbeds

  Great excitement in our household this morning as the new book by Jon Russ has finally been published after a very long delay. Thanks to Pelagic Press for coming to the rescue .  At first glance it seems well … Continue reading →

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A Bad Year for Bats

Posted on July 3, 2012 by batsinbeds

The Bat Conservation Trust has just posted the message below on Facebook. So far we have got off lightly in Bedfordshire but friends elsewhere are reporting large scale abandonment of young. In Beds the bats we caught earlier in the … Continue reading →

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Record numbers of bat fans at Sandy Warren

Posted on July 3, 2012 by batsinbeds

With this bad weather, bats are taking every opportunity to dash out and feed. Likewise bat deprived bat group members , looking out of their window and seeing an absence of rain, rushed out to their cars and drove to … Continue reading →

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Using habitat modelling to find bats.

Posted on June 28, 2012 by batsinbeds

For some years now scientists have been studying bat record and correlating them with a range of habitat features. From this they have developing models of where the particular species of bat is likely to be found. This is the … Continue reading →

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Stockgrove Park analysis of calls.

Posted on June 28, 2012 by batsinbeds

While the rest of those present, trudged round the park looking at roosts, Jude sat herself down at the point we do the Daubenton’s Count and made a continuous recording of bat activity there. ( with Jo to keep her … Continue reading →

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Wardown Park Survey

Posted on June 27, 2012 by batsinbeds

Two days of good weather in a row.Geraldine says “Another dry evening for a bat survey, the temperature and humidity didn’t drop much between the start and end times. The bat  boxes contained spider webs. It was a Common Pipistrelle … Continue reading →

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Long term patient released

Posted on June 27, 2012 by batsinbeds

Old news now, but on June 20th Aidan and family released the pipistrelle which has been living at their house since last Autumn. It was badly savaged by a cat and had lost a great deal of fur. It healed … Continue reading →

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Stockgrove Country Park Survey

Posted on June 26, 2012 by batsinbeds

Angie the  Stockgrove co-ordinator  writes Last night’s survey was warm and a little muggy. But no rain!!!! The first Soprano was heard just 4 minutes after sunset. There was limited activity from Sopranos with only 1 sighting out of 10 … Continue reading →

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