On a very warm night the regular Stockgrove survey took place. Highlight of the night was  returning a young bat to its roost.  Well done Gwen.Angie says

. Drawing of a brown long eared bat catherinebeazley.com –

Stockgrove last night was fairly quiet until 9.17 when the first bat was heard just as we were making our way to the low roost, this was unidentified but soon followed by a Soprano Pip at 9.20, several Soprano’s later at 9.35 the first Noctule was heard over the lake and a Daubentons was by the boat house at 9.45.

Meanwhile back at the low roost fresh droppings were seen in the bottom of the roost and the sounds of a bat were heard from above inside the roost. At 9.47 the first of 4 Brown Long eared bats emerged, the last at 9.51. A 5th, most likely a juvenile, then decided to show itself and landed on the floor below the roost, luckily a colleague had already put her gloves on to collect a poo sample to identify the species so helped the young bat back into the roost where it remained ……… (the poo was no longer needed as we now knew what the species was), there was also a possible Barbastelle in the area heard at 9.45 by the low roost.

Box 8 also had a resident, too shy to emerge but most likely a pip.
The Daubentons gave 31 passes for the count over the lake.

Meanwhile Bob and Aidan were mistnetting to the Rushemere side of the paik using the now autolurw – three brown eared bats were caught. A barbastelle was seenh investigating the nets but was too wily to get caught.