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First Stockgrove Park survey of the season.

April 1st is the official start of the bat season and we made a good start yesterday when we did out first Stockgrove Park  survey. We had five species of bat – soprano and common pipistrelles, brown long eared bats … Continue reading →

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Hibernating Bats Photogallery

I’ve been looking through the bat group archive of photos of hibernating bats which we have collected over the years. Hibernating bats are very difficult to photograph as bats must not be disturbed and of course they do tend to … Continue reading →

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Barbastelle at Harrold Odell Country Park

We always get a backlog of sound recordings from surveys which wait until Winter to get analysed.  Kel took a break from refurbishing her house to analyse a recording from Harold Odell Country Park made last year and found we … Continue reading →

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Mist netting at Swiss Garden

The bat group were invited to mist net in the gardens at Swiss Garden. This beautiful site is even more impressive as night falls.  The peacocks hang up in the trees and watched us somewhat doubtfully. The local owls called … Continue reading →

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Barbastelle in Huntingdon

Bat group member Colin  Edwards was at work visiting  an office  in Huntingdon and was greeted with “You know about bats , we’ve found one in a stairwell”. Expecting a pip he was stunned when he saw that it was … Continue reading →

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Barbastelles at Rushmere

Off to Rushmere last night in an attempt to catch a barbastelle. The nets were in the right place. Barbs came up to the net to investigate, but once again they laughed in our faces and headed off without getting … Continue reading →

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Mist netting success

Last night several bat group members went out to survey a wood in north Bedfordshire . We put up the double height net which Bob improvised last season and it proved its worth again when into it flew not one … Continue reading →

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