{"id":2644,"date":"2011-09-12T09:48:26","date_gmt":"2011-09-12T09:48:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/batsinbeds.wordpress.com\/?p=2644"},"modified":"2012-02-19T16:29:10","modified_gmt":"2012-02-19T16:29:10","slug":"first-bat-box-check-for-new-bat-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bedsbatgroup.org.uk\/wordpress\/?p=2644","title":{"rendered":"First Bat Box check for new bat project"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>The bat group put up fifty boxes in a Bedfordshire wood , following a grant from Costain Carillion, in the beginning of May.<\/p>\n

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Photo of pipistrelle by Bob Cornes<\/p><\/div>\n

Today, some of the bat group went out to check them. As much to check they could locate them as much as anything, Imagine their surprise that the first 6 boxes yielded\u00a0 three bats, a soprano pipistrelle, a common pipistrelle and a brown long eared bat.\u00a0 By the end of a long day 39 boxes had been checked and 19 bats had been found.<\/p>\n

These were weighed and measured, their sex and breeding status recorded before they were returned to their boxes.<\/p>\n

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Brown long eared bat Bob Cornes<\/p><\/div>\n

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Anybody at home? Photo Bob Cornes<\/p><\/div>\n

In addition we came across two brown long eared roosts.The first ones we have found in this wood.<\/p>\n

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Photo Jonathan Durward<\/p><\/div>\n

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Brown long eared droppings Photo Jonathan Durward<\/p><\/div>\n

One of the roosts was quite low in the trunk of tree. It had been used very recently as the droppings at entrance of the hole showed<\/p>\n

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

It was rather harder work checking the actual bat boxes<\/p>\n

By the end of the day\u00a0 it was\u00a0 a very tired group headed home. (limping in Aidan’s case as he aggravated an ankle injury) We will try to do the rest of the boxes in the next few days.<\/p>\n

Update. The rest of boxes were checked a few days later an we fond two more pipistrelles in the remaining boxes. That gives us a 40% occupancy rate<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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