{"id":5127,"date":"2012-02-10T17:53:48","date_gmt":"2012-02-10T17:53:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bedsbatgroup.org.uk\/wordpress\/?page_id=5127"},"modified":"2016-11-12T14:49:37","modified_gmt":"2016-11-12T14:49:37","slug":"bedfordshire-bat-group-photo-gallery","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bedsbatgroup.org.uk\/wordpress\/?page_id=5127","title":{"rendered":"Bedfordshire Bat Group Photo gallery."},"content":{"rendered":"

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Now I have got the basic website up and running, I will\u00a0 gradually be be moving some of the\u00a0 photo galleries onto wordpress . Eventually I will embed galleries on the relevant pages where they exist.<\/p>\n \n

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Slip end noctule<\/a><\/h2>
In 2010 an injured female Noctule gave birth while in captivity. Her badly broken wing meant she could never be released and has become an educational bat. Her son on the other hand was successfully reared and released into the wild.<\/div>
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Kitti's hog nosed bat<\/a><\/h2>
In 2010 we went with Bat Thai on a trip which gave us a chance to see Kitti's Hog Nosed bat. also known as the bumble bee bat 2010 For a very small bat it has a very long latin name Craseonycteris thonglongyai<\/div>
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Stockgrove Country Park<\/a><\/h2>
Once a fortnight during the bat season we walk a route round Stockgrove Park looking for bats. We have been doing this for 20 years now. It's a great site for bats. None members are welcome to join us. For details see Surveys Photos Jude Hirstwood & Toby Thorne<\/div>
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Trinidad 1 Phyllostomidae<\/a><\/h2>
The Phyllostomid bats are leaf nosed bats found only in the New World. These are pictures from our Trinidad 2011 trip. Photos Jude Hirstwood\/ Bib Cornes<\/div>
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Trinidad 2 Moormopidae, The leaf chinned bats<\/a><\/h2>
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Painted bat<\/a><\/h2>
In 2010 we went on a trip to Thailand and met a truly spectacular bat Photos Bob Cornes, Jude HIrstwood and Daniel Hargreaves.<\/div>
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Nicaragua 2011 Phyllostomids<\/a><\/h2>
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Fruit bats in Thailand<\/a><\/h2>
A trip to Thailand in 2011 took us to a monastery which had a colony of fruit bats in residence<\/div>
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Hibernating bats<\/a><\/h2>
Bats hibernate in out of they way places, which makes getting good views of them very difficult. In recent years, camera technology has improved so that we can zoom in closer without disturbing them. Often you can only se bits of the animal and it is often a challenge to identify the bat<\/div>
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Building bat boxes<\/a><\/h2>
We have been building bat boxes since 2007. Originally we did it as a follow on from the Count Bat Project, but then got a grant from the Bedford Ward councillors and from the Heritage Lottery Fund to work in the Luton area. Photos Jude Hirstwood (JH) and Danny Fellman(DF)<\/div>
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Hibernation sites<\/a><\/h2>
Under constructionBats look for out of the way places to hibernate. These are great places for bats, but can be tricky getting access to for human bat workers. We check 17 sites in Bedfordshire. Here are some of them.<\/div>
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Trinibats 2012<\/a><\/h2>
Under construction Four of the bat group returned to Trinidad in March 2012 and saw many more spectacular sites\/sights<\/div>
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Moggerhanger Lower School Letters and drawings<\/a><\/h2>
We did a talk here for Leopard class in May and they have just sent us some lovely letters and drawings. This is a random selection of some of them<\/div>
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Trinibats 2013<\/a><\/h2>
Back we went for another wonderful adventure organised by Trinibats<\/div>
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Rushmere<\/a><\/h2>
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