{"id":12171,"date":"2016-06-09T11:34:25","date_gmt":"2016-06-09T11:34:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bedsbatgroup.org.uk\/wordpress\/?p=12171"},"modified":"2016-06-09T11:35:55","modified_gmt":"2016-06-09T11:35:55","slug":"an-unusual-night-at-woburn-center-parcs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bedsbatgroup.org.uk\/wordpress\/?p=12171","title":{"rendered":"An unusual night at Woburn Center Parcs"},"content":{"rendered":"

The bat group has been allowed to monitor bats at Woburn Center Parcs and last night we set up two harp traps with lures and a mist net and waited. We were accompanied by a number of Center Parc staff who wanted to see a bat close up.<\/p>\n

After a quiet start we began catching and caught thirteen bats in all, two brown long eared, 5 very wriggly soprano pips and five equally wriggly Natterer’s bats. This gave Chris another chance to handle bats and Danny the opportunity to wrestle with some slippery sopranos.<\/p>\n

Luke was kept busy recording and soon got back into the flow of things, despite being attacked by A Very Vicious Nettle.<\/p>\n

Then the night turned surreal – neither Luke nor Chris are cake lovers. It was decided not to expel them from the group\u00a0 there and then,\u00a0 as it left more for everyone else . We then caught a bat that we hoped might be a Nathusius but after careful deliberation and a lot of peering at the penis and measuring the wing:5th finger ratio, it proved to be a large soprano.<\/p>\n

Then a bat that,on a superficial glance as it was being extracted from a harp trap, was thought to be a Daubenton’s : then then we looked at it\u00a0 closely . A lot of pouring over field guides ensued and it was decided that bat was indeed\u00a0 a WAB. Regular readers will now this is bat talk for ” err we can’t be sure whether it is a Whiskered,Brandt’s or Alcathoe”. The beast was put in a bag so we could get a poo sample for DNA analysis ( the only way to be sure) as no-one was sure about the fine details of the teeth.<\/p>\n

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WAB. Photo Bob Cornes<\/p><\/div>\n

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WAB Photo Bob Cornes<\/p><\/div>\n

Whatever it is, it will be a new record of a rare bat in a new site, so whatever the outcome we are happy, and are sending the dropping of for analysis<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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