Updated 4th August 2018
I will put the most recent at the top of this page
All the maps are QGIS Map produced using QGIS 2.10.1 – Pisa. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/
July 2018
Steph and Arron have filled in some very useful gaps in the map in the past week
A walk around Willingham
and a couple of driven transects
Jude Bob Hedj and Kei visited Woburn Safari Park to confirm a roost, and whiloele we were there, we set up some Peersonics
.Lots of barbastelle activity
Big bats and BLEs
Soprano pips
Bob has produced some more tetrad maps showing our latest progress.
The good weather continues, so Bob does some more car transects
With the good weather Bob and I did some more car transects into the tetrads with no bat records
3rd July. Another river survey. Note that there are some areas devoid of bats – these were windy and bats chose to feed elsewhere.
Having caught up with sonograms,Jude and Bob treated themselves to a drive in South Beds
Coming soon
Chris Lambert is thinking about doing some driven surveys along North Beds green lanes in his land rover once they are open again. At the moment they are closed because they are very muddy
June 2018
Bob has produced a map which shows records so far. Gray shaded area shows whch ttrads we got data for last year
While Bob and Jude were away, lots of mice played with the Pinpoint Bat equipment
John Day explored Pegnut Wood again
Dave Parsons did some more surveys on his home patch
Jenny Wright did several surveys as part of her 3o Days of Wildlife challenge
Bob and Nicky with the help of the Viking Kayak Club did another River Survey
Carole and George have been surveying on foot.They have some very interesting results
Look at all these barbastelles
There were lots of pips, mainly common
the soprano pips lurked elsewhere
and quite a few Myotis and big bats
May 2018
The first canoe survey this season gave lots of records of bats
Bob and John made another trip to Pegnut Wood. They used two detectors set at different thresholds.
Derek and Sarah Niemann have been out furtling again;
The Studham survey on 9th May organised by Dick and Geraldine yielded these records.
Bob drove to the survey and made a recording on his drive home
John Day led the first Sandy survey of the year on Tuesday 8th May
The static detector at the Gatehouse yielded some fascinating data, only a couple of pip records but wall to wall, Serotines, Noctules and big bats which we coulDn’t identify to species. There was also a single Nathusius pass
Steve Plummer has been looking for bats south of Cranfield
He also set up a static detector in his garden and recorded a barbastelle and a total of five species.