Monthly Archives: April 2022

Geraldine writes: “I’ve got my sad face on today, we deputised for Soggy last night at the Lakeside maternity roost site. It was rather chilly, 9C, didn’t see any bat food flying near the roost, and the bats in there … Continue reading

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged | Leave a comment

Bat Care Training

Held a bat care training course on Saturday. Lost several participants as had Covid or were attending weddings, but we had a good afternoon with people from North Bucks, Nene Valley and our group. Course was run  by experienced trainers … Continue reading

Posted in Uncategorized | Leave a comment

First Whipsnade survey

We were joined by several Whipsnade staff on Tuesday night . The winds across the Downs was feisty . Bats wisely shunned the windier places but were present in the quieter ones Whipsnade staff enjoyed the bats and bat group … Continue reading

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged | Leave a comment

Second Stockgrove survey

The rangers at Stockgrove were busy over winter and have opened up the canopy over a small pond just beyond the tip of the main lake. This week in addition to our usual circuit which yielded our usual suspects  (soprano … Continue reading

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged , | Leave a comment

First Lakeside survey

We returned with some trepidation to Lakeside as the lake dried out last year and bat numbers were much lower, but Nature abhors a vacuum and as the lake refilled bat numbers increased again The soprano pipistrelles had over 100 … Continue reading

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged , | Leave a comment

First Kings Wood box check

As with other events so far this season we had a healthy turnout, or so we thought. On the day three had to drop out because of  what we hoped  were just colds . The four remaining folk managed to … Continue reading

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged | Leave a comment

First Stockgrove survey

Anyone would think we had been looking forward to  the new season. No fewer than 12 members came out to play. The bats  obviously felt sorry for us and we heard soprano and common pips, saw Daubenton’s over the lake … Continue reading

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged , | Leave a comment

And we are off

The season begins! After a long hiatus we checked the Harrold Odell Country Park  bat boxes. They had been checked in January to see if they needed repair. Today we checked to see if there were perchance any residents. As … Continue reading

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged , | Leave a comment