{"id":2319,"date":"2011-08-23T07:51:23","date_gmt":"2011-08-23T07:51:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/batsinbeds.wordpress.com\/?page_id=2319"},"modified":"2012-04-18T12:55:04","modified_gmt":"2012-04-18T12:55:04","slug":"count-bat-spin-offs-2009","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bedsbatgroup.org.uk\/wordpress\/?page_id=2319","title":{"rendered":"Count Bat Spin offs 2009"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5>Created October 2009<\/h5>\n<p>The original Count Bat Project in 2007 led to a number of successful spin offs in 2008.<\/p>\n<p>In 2009 we tried to build on these in a way which\u00a0 further reduced our need to look to Count Bat for funding<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_2320\" style=\"width: 210px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bedsbatgroup.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/elaines-cake.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2320\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2320\" title=\"elaine's-cake\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bedsbatgroup.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/elaines-cake.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"130\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2320\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo Jude HIrstwood. The drawing oin this cake was done by bat grou mmber and Queen&#39;s Pak resident Elaine Rigby<\/p><\/div>\n<p>In January 2009 the bat group invited the Bat Conservation Trust&#8217;s Count Bat Team to Queen&#8217;s Park to meet those involved with the project. We used this as an excuse to celebrate two years of the project<\/p>\n<p>_________________________________________________________________<\/p>\n<p>Our relationship with the Park Ranger Service evolved\u00a0 to cover more of Bedford.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><div id=\"attachment_2322\" style=\"width: 210px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bedsbatgroup.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/priory-bat-boxes.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2322\" class=\" wp-image-2322\" title=\"priory-bat-boxes\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bedsbatgroup.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/priory-bat-boxes.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2322\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo Daniel Fellma<\/p><\/div><\/li>\n<li><\/li>\n<li>The Park Rangers ran a bat themed activity at the Play\u00a0Cafe in Kempston<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/ul>\n<p>______________________________________________________________________<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Bat walks<br \/>\n<a>We held walks at Queen&#8217;s Park<\/a>, Bedford Park and Addison Howard Park Kempston, helped out at five popular bat walks organised by the Priory Rangers and held a walk for Anglian wolf Society members at Priory Park<\/li>\n<li>We were invited to the Queen&#8217;s Park Community Picnic on Sep 26th but this event had to be cancelled by the organisers<br \/>\n_________________________________________________________________<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Two National Bat Monitoring Programme roost surveys, two NBMP\u00a0waterway Nathusius surveys were held at <a title=\"The Luton Bat\u00a0Project\" href=\"http:\/\/batsinbeds.wordpress.com\/priory-country-park\/\">Priory Country Park<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<div id=\"attachment_2325\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bedsbatgroup.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/priory-fun-day-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2325\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2325\" title=\"priory--fun-day-2\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bedsbatgroup.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/priory-fun-day-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2325\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo Jude Hirstwood<\/p><\/div>\n<p>We attended the Priory Country Park event on Saturday July 25thWe sent members of the Bat Group along to two judging days for the Bedford in Bloom and Queen&#8217;s Park in Bloom events and The Priory CP Green Flag Award judging<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>__________________________________________________________________<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<div id=\"attachment_2326\" style=\"width: 160px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bedsbatgroup.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/canoe-1-getting-ready.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2326\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-2326\" title=\"canoe-1-getting-ready\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bedsbatgroup.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/canoe-1-getting-ready-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2326\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo Daniel Fellman<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Priory Rangers and the bat group organised two &#8220;bat and boat events\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/batsinbeds.files.wordpress.com\/2011\/08\/bats-and-boats-2010.pdf\">Bats and Boats 2010<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Priory Rangers let us use their visitors&#8217; centre for two meetings<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>___________________________________________________________________<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bedsbatgroup.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/taste-real-food.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-2327\" title=\"taste real food\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bedsbatgroup.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/taste-real-food-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>We attended a day organised by the\u00a0\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tasterealfood.com\/cpages\/events.html\">Bedford Taste Real Food <\/a>group for the Queen&#8217;s Park Lower School and gave them a talk about bats followed by a chance to meet a live one<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>__________________________________________________________________<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bedsbatgroup.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/serotine-ringed.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-2094\" title=\"serotine-ringed\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bedsbatgroup.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/serotine-ringed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"255\" \/><\/a>Following the success of surveys at <a href=\"http:\/\/batsinbeds.wordpress.com\/harrold-odell\/\">Harrold Odell Country Park <\/a>in 2008-9 we continued these\u00a0ever since.\u00a0and recorded many rare serotine bats<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bedsbatgroup.org.uk\/wordpress\/?page_id=2241\">Count Bat 2007<\/a><br \/>\n<a title=\"Count Bat\u00a02008\" 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><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Created October 2009 The original Count Bat Project in 2007 led to a number of successful spin offs in 2008. 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