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Another Brandt’s at Kings Wood.

Bob and Jenni headed off last night for another evening of harp trapping. It was a quiet evening but into the harp trap flew a Brandt’s bat ( probably) Bob managed to get a poo sample for analysis which will … Continue reading →

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Bechstein’s Project round 3 Day 3

After another busy day checking the results from the previous night. more bat group members headed off to another wood. This was the most demanding physically as the wood was on a steep slope, so lugging the equipment was a … Continue reading →

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Bechstein’s Project Round 3, Day 2.

The day was spent checking equipment, planning the evening logistics, looking at sound recordings, checking video recordings and plugging  a vast number of battery chargers throughout the house. More cake was made  and then headed off to the next wood … Continue reading →

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Bechstein survey – in Herefordshire

Regular readers will know we have been hunting for Bechstein’s in Bedfordshire. So far we have had no luck, but the weather has been awful. Lia is going to come back at the end of August, but she has just … Continue reading →

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Meeting a Bechstein’s

In the run up to our own Hunt the Bechstein’s game, Tony and Bob joined the North  Bucks group  on a survey yesterday, using both a harp trap and a mist net Tony saw his first ever Bechstein’s  (after a … Continue reading →

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National Bat Monitoring Programme

Philip Briggs the National Bat Monitoring Projects Officer at the Bat Conservation Trust came and gave us a talk last night. It was fascinating to see how the data we collected fits into a much larger picture. Members already do … Continue reading →

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Final swarming survey of the year

  11th October saw a brave group of bat group folk wrapped up against the cold waiting to see if any bats would come into our nets at another of our swarming sites. The  weather was against them really as … Continue reading →

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A trip down South

Two of us were invited to Avon to watch Daniel Hargreaves harp trapping bats at the entrance to a stone quarry a well known swarming site. It is thought that males gather there in the hope of attracting females – … Continue reading →

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autumn swarming 2

You can read more about autumn swarming  here.2011-1 autumn swarming   One last try to see if we could pick up on some autumn swarming. Last night some of the group trundled off to a local icehouse. Bob and Jonathan … Continue reading →

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