{"id":10599,"date":"2015-05-09T08:36:43","date_gmt":"2015-05-09T08:36:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bedsbatgroup.org.uk\/wordpress\/?p=10599"},"modified":"2015-05-09T08:38:25","modified_gmt":"2015-05-09T08:38:25","slug":"priory-bat-box-project-the-next-stage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bedsbatgroup.org.uk\/wordpress\/?p=10599","title":{"rendered":"Priory Bat Box Project- the next stage"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_10601\" style=\"width: 210px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bedsbatgroup.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Danny-and-ladder2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-10601\" class=\"wp-image-10601 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bedsbatgroup.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Danny-and-ladder2-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"Photo Bob Cornes\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bedsbatgroup.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Danny-and-ladder2-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.bedsbatgroup.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Danny-and-ladder2-683x1024.jpg 683w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-10601\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo Bob Cornes<\/p><\/div>\n<p>After the writing up of the current Bat Box Project at Priory,w e were absolutely delighted when Bedfordshire Borough Council offered us \u00a3500 to buy some more boxes. Up until then Danny (and local schools) had made all the boxes themselves at no cost to the council.<\/p>\n<p>This grant has meant we have been\u00a0 able to buy 11 new boxes which we hope will attract other species of\u00a0 bat to use them. Bob has been training Danny in the subtle art of taking bats out of boxes and on Thursday the pair of them toured the site looking for suitable sites in the light of future management plans and ivy free trees., and installed all but one of the boxes<\/p>\n<p>They have installed 5 2FN, 5 2FF and 1FF box<\/p>\n<p>These will be checked monthly by Danny and Bob<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Along the way they checked the Kent boxes and found a new record for occupancy &#8211;\u00a0 at least 15 pips who were in a box that was very awkward to photograph,so apologies for the slightly blurry\u00a0 photo<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_10603\" style=\"width: 650px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bedsbatgroup.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/pips-in-a-kent-box.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-10603\" class=\"size-large wp-image-10603\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bedsbatgroup.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/pips-in-a-kent-box-716x1024.jpg\" alt=\"Pipistrelle in a kent bat box. Photo Bob Cornes\" width=\"640\" height=\"915\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bedsbatgroup.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/pips-in-a-kent-box-716x1024.jpg 716w, https:\/\/www.bedsbatgroup.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/pips-in-a-kent-box-210x300.jpg 210w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-10603\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Pipistrelles in a kent bat box. Photo Bob Cornes<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After the writing up of the current Bat Box Project at Priory,w e were absolutely delighted when Bedfordshire Borough Council offered us \u00a3500 to buy some more boxes. Up until then Danny (and local schools) had made all the boxes &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bedsbatgroup.org.uk\/wordpress\/?p=10599\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[24,22,23],"class_list":["post-10599","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-boxes","tag-pipistrelles","tag-priory-park"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bedsbatgroup.org.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10599","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bedsbatgroup.org.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bedsbatgroup.org.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"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=10599"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.bedsbatgroup.org.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10599\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10609,"href":"https:\/\/www.bedsbatgroup.org.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10599\/revisions\/10609"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bedsbatgroup.org.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10599"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bedsbatgroup.org.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10599"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bedsbatgroup.org.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10599"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}