{"id":10991,"date":"2015-07-24T17:09:14","date_gmt":"2015-07-24T17:09:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bedsbatgroup.org.uk\/wordpress\/?p=10991"},"modified":"2016-07-07T12:22:41","modified_gmt":"2016-07-07T12:22:41","slug":"a-new-bat-for-bedfordshire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bedsbatgroup.org.uk\/wordpress\/?p=10991","title":{"rendered":"A new bat for Bedfordshire"},"content":{"rendered":"

We went trapping Wednesday night and were joined by Daniel Hargreaves and his to harp traps and lures.This meant we had four of them to set up. It was a steady evening at first and we caught pipistrelles, Natterer’s and Brown Long Ears. As the night drew on we were delighted to catch a Brandt’s bat. Once we had processed it , it was not keen to fly, but was happy to scuttle up Danny’s arm and make his way onto his back, as you can see in the photo below. After a while the bat took off and flew back into the night.<\/p>\n

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What the well dressed Bat Group Chair is wearing this year. Photo Jude Hirstwood<\/p><\/div>\n

As if this were not enough, we then began to catch more bats and within the next hour or so we caught not one but four whiskered bats- the first time they have ever been caught in Bedfordshire<\/p>\n

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Whiskered bat is on the left, the Brandt’s is on the right. Photo Bob Cornes, tweeking of image by Hedj Dollman<\/p><\/div>\n

Whiskered and Brandt’s are not easy to tell apart, but Daniel and Bob agreed their ID and we collected a dropping for DNA analysis.\u00a0 Danny\u00a0 was dead chuffed as he had never seen either bat before) It was 3 am by the time we got home.<\/p>\n

We did not catch a barbastelle but we picked up several passes on a bat detector. A night to remember and as we explained to Brandon and Tommy , this was not a typical night’s trapping<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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