{"id":2362,"date":"2011-08-23T12:20:34","date_gmt":"2011-08-23T12:20:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/batsinbeds.wordpress.com\/?page_id=2362"},"modified":"2012-04-18T12:56:30","modified_gmt":"2012-04-18T12:56:30","slug":"count-bat-spin-offs-2011-2","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bedsbatgroup.org.uk\/wordpress\/?page_id=2362","title":{"rendered":"Count Bat Spin offs 2011"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5>Created October 2011<\/h5>\n<ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Another busy year<\/li>\n<li>We did another talk for the Taste Good Food Group<\/li>\n<li>I<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bedsbatgroup.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/bedfordshire-borough-council-logo.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-2363\" title=\"bedfordshire borough council logo\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bedsbatgroup.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/bedfordshire-borough-council-logo.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"160\" height=\"47\" \/><\/a>n\u00a0 December 2010, we were given a grant from Bedford ward councillors to extend the Kempston bat\u00a0 building project into Bedford . The bat\u00a0 group undertook to buy the materials for the kits and to prepare the box kits.<\/li>\n<li>In March we got an additional\u00a0 grant from Kempston ward councillors to build more boxes there\u00a0 in October.<br \/>\n___________________________________________________________<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/ul>\n<div id=\"attachment_2387\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bedsbatgroup.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/bat-at-blackboard.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2387\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2387\" title=\"bat at blackboard\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bedsbatgroup.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/bat-at-blackboard.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"257\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2387\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Illustration Joan Childs<\/p><\/div>\n<ul>\n<ul>\n<ul>\n<ul>\n<ul>The grants also gave us money to produce an education pack for the schools we worked with. This included a CD of materials.<\/ul>\n<\/ul>\n<\/ul>\n<\/ul>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/batsinbeds.files.wordpress.com\/2011\/08\/contents-of-the-cd.pdf\">Contents of the CD<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Michelle Viola of Goldington Lower School prepared some lesson plans for us to give out with the pack . These\u00a0 are to be used in the Count Bat Resources pack . being produced at the end of the Count Bat Project. You can download them here <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bedsbatgroup.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/2011-lesson-plans-to-follow-on-from-the-making-bat-boxes-workshop.pdf\">2011 Lesson Plans To Follow On From The Making Bat Boxes Workshop<\/a><br \/>\n__________________________________________________________<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<div id=\"attachment_2369\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bedsbatgroup.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/education-pack1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2369\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2369\" title=\"education-pack\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bedsbatgroup.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/education-pack1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2369\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Education Pack Photo Jude HIrstwood<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_2217\" style=\"width: 410px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bedsbatgroup.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/goldington-middle.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2217\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2217\" title=\"Goldington-Middle-\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bedsbatgroup.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/goldington-middle.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bedsbatgroup.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/goldington-middle.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.bedsbatgroup.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/goldington-middle-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2217\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo Daniel Fellman<\/p><\/div>\n<p>In March we worked in five schools in Bedford. The bat group at whole school assemblies and then the Street and Park Rangers built the boxes with selected groups of youngsters.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div id=\"attachment_2370\" style=\"width: 190px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bedsbatgroup.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/hills-lower-school-10.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2370\" class=\" wp-image-2370 \" title=\"Hills-Lower-School-(10)\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bedsbatgroup.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/hills-lower-school-10.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"180\" height=\"240\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bedsbatgroup.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/hills-lower-school-10.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.bedsbatgroup.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/hills-lower-school-10-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 180px) 100vw, 180px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2370\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Hills Road lower school Photo Daniel Fellman<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_2367\" style=\"width: 235px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bedsbatgroup.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/putnoe-lower-school-5.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2367\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2367\" title=\"Putnoe-Lower-School-(5)\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bedsbatgroup.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/putnoe-lower-school-5-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bedsbatgroup.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/putnoe-lower-school-5-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.bedsbatgroup.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/putnoe-lower-school-5.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2367\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo Daniel Fellman. Pupils at Putnoe Lower School<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_4880\" style=\"width: 235px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bedsbatgroup.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/Bedford-school-boxes.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4880\" class=\" wp-image-4880\" title=\"Bedford-school-boxes\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bedsbatgroup.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/Bedford-school-boxes-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bedsbatgroup.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/Bedford-school-boxes-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.bedsbatgroup.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/Bedford-school-boxes-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.bedsbatgroup.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/Bedford-school-boxes.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-4880\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo Daniel Fellman Putnoe Lower School<\/p><\/div>\n<p>_____________________________________________________________________<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bedsbatgroup.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/viking-kayak-club.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-591\" title=\"viking kayak club\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bedsbatgroup.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/viking-kayak-club.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"180\" height=\"175\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.vikingkayak.co.uk\/\">The Viking Kayak\u00a0 Club <\/a>was one of the groups which helped with bats and boats in 2010. They volunteered to run all the Bats and Boats events without charge. In return the Bat Group will do a series of talks for their members.<br \/>\n___________________________________________________________<\/li>\n<li>The Viking Canoe club has also agreed to help us with an ongoing survey along the River Ivel. In 2011 we did three of these and have three more events planned for 2012<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div class=\"mceTemp\">\n<div id=\"attachment_2378\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bedsbatgroup.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/canoe-survey-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2378\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2378\" title=\"canoe-survey-2\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bedsbatgroup.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/canoe-survey-2-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bedsbatgroup.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/canoe-survey-2-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.bedsbatgroup.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/canoe-survey-2-400x300.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.bedsbatgroup.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/canoe-survey-2.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2378\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo Bob Cornes<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_2326\" style=\"width: 310px\" 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-full wp-image-2326\" title=\"canoe-1-getting-ready\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bedsbatgroup.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/canoe-1-getting-ready.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2326\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo Daniel Fellman<\/p><\/div>\n<h6 class=\"wp-caption-dt\">Photo Bob Cornes<\/h6>\n<\/div>\n<p>__________________________________________________________________<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<div id=\"attachment_2383\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bedsbatgroup.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/sailing-bat-badge.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2383\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2383\" title=\"sailing-bat-badge\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bedsbatgroup.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/sailing-bat-badge-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bedsbatgroup.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/sailing-bat-badge-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.bedsbatgroup.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/sailing-bat-badge-400x300.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.bedsbatgroup.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/sailing-bat-badge.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2383\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Design Joan Childs<\/p><\/div>\n<p>We used some of the Bedford Grant to have badges made for people who went on the Bats and Boats or the Canoe surveys events<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>_____________________________________________________________________<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<div id=\"attachment_4445\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bedsbatgroup.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/barbastelle-bed.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4445\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4445\" title=\"barbastelle-bed\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bedsbatgroup.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/barbastelle-bed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-4445\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo Bob Cornes<\/p><\/div>\n<p>We were given permission to survey any of the woodland owned and managed by Bedford Borough Council. This season we surveyed<span style=\"color: #000000;\"> several<\/span> sites, one of which had barbastelles in them<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>__________________________________________________________________<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bedsbatgroup.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/2011-Priory-walk-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-5054\" title=\"2011 Priory-walk-2\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bedsbatgroup.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/2011-Priory-walk-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a>Priory Rangers ran another five bat walks and and as usual members of the bat group turned up to support them<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bedsbatgroup.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/2011-Priory-walk-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright  wp-image-5054\" title=\"2011 Priory-walk-2\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bedsbatgroup.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/2011-Priory-walk-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"180\" height=\"135\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>____________________________________________________________________<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bedsbatgroup.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/Kempston-lower-school.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-4883\" title=\"Kempston-lower-school\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bedsbatgroup.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/Kempston-lower-school.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In autumn we did two more bat box building sessions at\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bedsbatgroup.org.uk\/wordpress\/?p=3797\"><span style=\"color: #993300;\">Robert Bruce Middle School<\/span><\/a> and <span style=\"color: #993300;\">Kempston lower school<\/span> .<\/p>\n<p>We did a talk for<span style=\"color: #993300;\"> Priory Lower School<\/span><\/p>\n<p>We also gave a\u00a0 well received talk at<span style=\"color: #993300;\"> Bedford Library<\/span><\/p>\n<p>____________________________________________________________________<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>We wrote a case study of our work for the Count Bat Project for the Bat CPnservatopn Trust&#8217;s Bats for All Project <a href=\"www.bats.org.uk\/publications...\/D.2.b_Queens_Park_Case_Study.pdf\"><cite>www.<strong>bats<\/strong>.org.uk\/publications&#8230;\/D.2.b_Queens_Park_<strong>Case<\/strong>_<strong>Study<\/strong>.pdf<\/cite><br \/>\n<\/a><\/li>\n<li>BC made a short video about w0rking with black and ethnic minority communities which featrues our work in Queens Park<br \/>\n_____________________________________________________________<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>We have money over for other Bedford based initiatives. Watch this space.<\/p>\n<p><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<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bedsbatgroup.org.uk\/wordpress\/?page_id=2362\"><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 2011 Another busy year We did another talk for the Taste Good Food Group In\u00a0 December 2010, we were given a grant from Bedford ward councillors to extend the Kempston bat\u00a0 building project into Bedford . The bat\u00a0 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bedsbatgroup.org.uk\/wordpress\/?page_id=2362\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2362","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bedsbatgroup.org.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2362","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bedsbatgroup.org.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bedsbatgroup.org.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bedsbatgroup.org.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bedsbatgroup.org.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2362"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/www.bedsbatgroup.org.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2362\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4533,"href":"https:\/\/www.bedsbatgroup.org.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2362\/revisions\/4533"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bedsbatgroup.org.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}