Monthly Archives: February 2019

The East West Rail link

There is a proposal to build a railway from Oxford to Cambridge which  obviously, goes through Bedfordshire. The train company has asked for comments on their proposed routes. There are 5 proposed routes. The maps that they have provided are … Continue reading

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Whipsnade Hibernation boxes

Many years ago we put wooden bat boxes into some of our hibernation sites. These are by their very nature damp places and over the years the boxes have begun to disintegrate. At the latest survey, George offered to make … Continue reading

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Bat sounds in a hibernation site

As mentioned earlier we put an SMT  detector into one of the hibernation sites at Whipsnade This is a recording of a Natterer’s Bat flying around inside the hibernaculum You can see the echolocation calls bouncing off the walls   … Continue reading

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Playing with bat box data

While bat sleep, Bob has being passing his time crunching data. He had done a time consuming nearest neighbour anaylsis of the Kings Wood bat box results to see which bat roost with which. We knew before we started this … Continue reading

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Bat Conservation Trust Ringing fund

The committee agreed to donate £500 to this appeal

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February Hibernation survey

A redesigned record sheet made recording data much easier in our biggest site. We had a record number of bats 273 compared with the previous Feb best of 244: Natterer’s 180 Daubenton’s 75 cf 44 last year Myotis sp 1 … Continue reading

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