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Lakeside survey

At long last the rain stopped for a bit. Went to the Lakeside survey last night and watched 601 soprano pipistrelles coming out to feed. Not only that but we  also had good views of Noctules andsaw a hobby and … Continue reading →

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Rain didn’t stop play at Stockgrove and Sandy Warren

The bat group are hardy souls and braved to poor weather to do two of our regular surveys last night. “It was a pleasant evening, the rain held off until we were heading home. 4 of the boxes had residents … Continue reading →

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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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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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Another gallery (or two)

It is very cold today, braver souls than I are doing the February hibernation check. I meanwhile am in the warm playing with some more photo galleries.   Trinidad 1  The leaf nosed bats and Stockgrove Park ( I must … Continue reading →

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Rushmere in the snow

Two of us went over to a snow covered Rushmere Park to look at the proposed sites from sculpture installations with a view to seeing whether they would get in the way for bats. There shouldn’t be a problem and … 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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A new wood to explore.

We were contacted by the owner of a wood North of Bedford and asked if we would be interested at seeing what bats there were. As it is not far from some woodland with barbastelles in , we were keen … 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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First Bat Box check for new bat project

The bat group put up fifty boxes in a Bedfordshire wood , following a grant from Costain Carillion, in the beginning of May. Today, some of the bat group went out to check them. As much to check they could … Continue reading →

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