{"id":2265,"date":"2011-08-18T11:34:39","date_gmt":"2011-08-18T11:34:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/batsinbeds.wordpress.com\/?page_id=2265"},"modified":"2012-04-18T12:50:07","modified_gmt":"2012-04-18T12:50:07","slug":"count-bat-2008","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bedsbatgroup.org.uk\/wordpress\/?page_id=2265","title":{"rendered":"Count Bat 2008"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5>Created\u00a0 January 2009<br \/>\nUpdated August 2011<\/h5>\n<ul>\n<li>BCT funding for the Queen&#8217;s Park Count Bat pilot project finished in September 2007, and we had n further contact until the following Jnuary.. It had always been the Bat Group&#8217;s intention to continue with the project, albeit on a reduced scale, and we made plans in November 2007.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The success of the first stage of the project and the fact that fifteen people had joined the bat group gave us further encouragement.\u00a0Of the fifteen bat group recruits nine went on to become very actively involved in the Bat Group . Without them this level of activity would not have been possible. We decided on the following low cost options:<br \/>\nWe also decided to\u00a0 be as flexible as possible and respond to requests for activities. <span style=\"color: #339966;\">Activities in green<\/span> were opportunities that arose during the year after our initial planning sessions and shows the importance of being flexible.<\/p>\n<p>In<span style=\"color: #993300;\"> January 2008<\/span> we were contacted by Diana Hagues, the new Count Bat Officer for our region. We invited her to a meeting in Queen&#8217;s Park to brief her on the project. At this point she told us that there would be some funding from the Count Bat Project which now had Heritage Lottery Funding<\/p>\n<p>This funding paid for hall hire for the May walk, transport for the September walk, a pitch for the Bedford River Festival on June 2th and 13th and reprinting more Bat group bookmarks..<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<div id=\"attachment_2271\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bedsbatgroup.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/2008-sonogram-training.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2271\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2271\" title=\"2008-sonogram-training\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bedsbatgroup.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/2008-sonogram-training.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2271\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo Jude Hirstwood<\/p><\/div>\n<p>We ran an in house sonogram course\u00a0 12 people attended the sonogram training course, six of whom were still analysing sonograms in 2011<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>_____________________________________________________________________<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\">We introduced a new survey at <span style=\"color: #993300;\">Harrold Odell<\/span>\n<div id=\"attachment_2278\" style=\"width: 410px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bedsbatgroup.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/harroldcubscouts3jpg.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2278\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2278\" title=\"harroldcubscouts3jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bedsbatgroup.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/harroldcubscouts3jpg.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bedsbatgroup.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/harroldcubscouts3jpg.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.bedsbatgroup.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/harroldcubscouts3jpg-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2278\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo Brian Diskin<\/p><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"color: #993300;\">Country Park\u00a0 (HOCP)<\/span> which we ran three times<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bedsbatgroup.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/hocp-logo.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-2275\" title=\"hocp logo\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bedsbatgroup.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/hocp-logo.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"117\" height=\"98\" \/><\/a><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #008000;\">HOCP asked us to do two\u00a0 public walks<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><span style=\"color: #008000;\">The local cub group also asked us to lead a walk there<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">________________________________________________________________________<\/span><br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<div id=\"attachment_2285\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bedsbatgroup.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/priory-box-check-20082.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2285\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2285\" title=\"Priory-box-check-2008\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bedsbatgroup.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/priory-box-check-20082.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"474\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bedsbatgroup.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/priory-box-check-20082.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.bedsbatgroup.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/priory-box-check-20082-189x300.jpg 189w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2285\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo JUde HIrstwood<\/p><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"color: #008000;\">We worked with the <span style=\"color: #993300;\">Priory Country Park Rangers<\/span> on a bat box project We tracked down boxes which had been put up twenty years before, and\u00a0 made some more boxes to go into the park which the Rangers put up<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #008000;\">We provided material for a display on bats in the Visitor&#8217;s Centre<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #008000;\">We worked with the Priory Park Rangers on four bat walks at Priory Park.\u00a0 We lent them bat detectors and helped hem learn more about the bats in the park.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #008000;\">In return they let us use the Visitors&#8217; Centre for training and meetings<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>_______________________________________________________________<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bedsbatgroup.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/queens-park-bat-walk-5.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-2290\" title=\"queens-park-bat-walk-5\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bedsbatgroup.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/queens-park-bat-walk-5.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a>We held another bat walk at Queen&#8217;s Park <a href=\"http:\/\/batsinbeds.files.wordpress.com\/2011\/08\/2008-7-queens-park-bat-walk.pdf\">2008-7 queens park bat walk<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/batsinbeds.files.wordpress.com\/2011\/08\/2007-11-countbatwalk.pdf\"><br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<p>________________________________________________________________<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<div id=\"attachment_2268\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bedsbatgroup.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/she-bats1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2268\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2268\" title=\"she-bats1\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bedsbatgroup.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/she-bats1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"314\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bedsbatgroup.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/she-bats1.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.bedsbatgroup.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/she-bats1-286x300.jpg 286w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2268\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kelly and LIzzie model their bat outfits<\/p><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"color: #008000;\">Kelly and Lizzie organised the Bedford River Festival and made these bat wings. They have been lent to the Bat Conservation Trust for use at Birdfare and other events.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bedsbatgroup.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/2008-11river-festival.pdf\">2008 -11river festival<\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>_________________________________________________________________<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>We agreed we try to meet any other requests for bat related activities in the community e.g. bat box building<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_2293\" style=\"width: 351px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bedsbatgroup.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/queens-park-middle-school-completed-bat-boxes.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2293\" class=\" wp-image-2293   \" title=\"queens park middle school completed bat boxes\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bedsbatgroup.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/queens-park-middle-school-completed-bat-boxes.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"341\" height=\"269\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bedsbatgroup.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/queens-park-middle-school-completed-bat-boxes.jpg 1579w, https:\/\/www.bedsbatgroup.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/queens-park-middle-school-completed-bat-boxes-300x237.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.bedsbatgroup.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/queens-park-middle-school-completed-bat-boxes-1024x809.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.bedsbatgroup.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/queens-park-middle-school-completed-bat-boxes-379x300.jpg 379w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 341px) 100vw, 341px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2293\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo Jude Hirstwood<\/p><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"color: #008000;\">Street Ranger Paul Wheatley and Park Ranger Danny Fellman came up with a schme to build bat boxes at Queen&#8217;s Park Lower School<\/span>. <span style=\"color: #008000;\">Bat group members came along to give advice on siting of boxes<\/span>. They used the newly designed Kent Bat Box and we soon realised this was an ideal box for youngsters to build All the boxes were put up in the school grounds. <span style=\"color: #008000;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bedsbatgroup.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/2009-10-bat-box-building-at-queens-park.pdf\">2009-10 bat box building at queen&#8217;s park<\/a><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_2297\" style=\"width: 410px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bedsbatgroup.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/junior-rangers-bat-boxes4.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2297\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2297\" title=\"junior-rangers-bat-boxes4\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bedsbatgroup.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/junior-rangers-bat-boxes4.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bedsbatgroup.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/junior-rangers-bat-boxes4.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.bedsbatgroup.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/junior-rangers-bat-boxes4-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2297\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo Paul Wheatley<\/p><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"color: #008000;\">Danny and Paul then went on to build more boxes with the Queen&#8217;s Park Rangers. These boxes were put up in Queens Park and at Priory Country Park<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">You can read more detail in an extract from\u00a0 our\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bedsbatgroup.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/count-bat-section-2008-annual-report1.pdf\">count bat section 2008 annual report<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: right;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bedsbatgroup.org.uk\/wordpress\/?page_id=2241\">Count Bat 2007<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bedsbatgroup.org.uk\/wordpress\/?page_id=2265\">Count Bat 2008<\/a><br \/>\n<a title=\"Count Bat Spin offs\u00a02009\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bedsbatgroup.org.uk\/wordpress\/?page_id=2319\">Count Bat\u00a0 Spin Offs 2009<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bedsbatgroup.org.uk\/wordpress\/?page_id=2338\">Count Bat Spin Offs 2010<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bedsbatgroup.org.uk\/wordpress\/?page_id=2362\">Count Bat\u00a0 Spin Offs 2011<br \/>\n<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bedsbatgroup.org.uk\/wordpress\/?page_id=5577\">Count Bat spin offs 2012<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Created\u00a0 January 2009 Updated August 2011 BCT funding for the Queen&#8217;s Park Count Bat pilot project finished in September 2007, and we had n further contact until the following Jnuary.. 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