Monthly Archives: January 2015

There’s nowt as perverse as a bat

Jo Peddar has just sent me some photos of the January hibernation check. These are bat bricks, the idea is the bat snuggles into the gaps within the bricks., only this bat had other ideas

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Kings Wood Roost Hunt

We started looking for potential roosts last year. Yesterday 6 masochistic members of the Bat Group spend all day today,walking back  and forth through trees in another  section  of Kings Wood in an attempt to identify potential roost sites The … Continue reading

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Putting up boxes at Rushmere and Stockgrove

On a cold clear day Bob, Jo, and Phil  finally got to put up some of the twenty boxes which were bought by the owners of the Double Arches wind turbine as a way of improving habitats for bats.   … Continue reading

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January hibernation survey

With the relatively mild winter weather we weren’t expecting anything exceptional on this survey, but numbers weren’t greatly down. Barbastells were few and far between, but we have only found them in large quantities when it is really cold and … Continue reading

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An unexpected find on a roost visit

I just couldn’t resist passing this on. One of the bat group was asked to do a survey at a house to look for bats. Having gone into the loft there were no bats – but there was a small … Continue reading

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Catching Up

After a slow start to the year, due to a very determined cold virus,I am gradually catching up. The newsletter is finished and distributed, (and the distribution list sorted out) and I am now working on getting the website refreshed. … Continue reading

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Is the Bedfordshire Bat Group hibernating?

Regular readers of this blog may wonder what on earth has happened as there have been very few posts of late. While things have been quieter, silence here has been due to illness not total inertia. I hope to put … Continue reading

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