We have already said that there are a lot of juvenile bat casualties this year. Dick and Geraldine were visiting a church in Buckinghamshire on August 3rd and found a dead juvenile bat. This was a young animal who had yet to develop its fur.
Dick and Geraldine took a series of photos which they has passed onto the North Bucks Bat Group.
It is not always easy to identify juvenile bats, but we think this one is a brown long eared
Photo Dick and Geraldine Hogg
Photo Dick and Geraldine Hogg
- Photo Dick and Geraldine Hogg
Had it survived it would have grown into a rather more elegant creature
Photo of an adult brown long eared bat Bob Cornes