{"id":3871,"date":"2012-01-02T11:16:59","date_gmt":"2012-01-02T11:16:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bedsbatgroup.org.uk\/wordpress\/?p=3871"},"modified":"2012-01-03T15:36:54","modified_gmt":"2012-01-03T15:36:54","slug":"rushmere-roost-tree-felled","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bedsbatgroup.org.uk\/wordpress\/?p=3871","title":{"rendered":"Rushmere roost tree felled"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In 2011 we reported the fact that we had found a <a title=\"Woodman spare that tree\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bedsbatgroup.org.uk\/wordpress\/?p=2609\">Noctule roost at the entrance to Rushmere Country Park<\/a>. This tree was then damaged during a storm. It was tethered to other trees but the Greensand Trust applied to Natural England for a licence to fell it. Then it was realised that brown long eared bats were also roosting there, so a modified application had to be made.<\/p>\n<div>\n<dl id=\"attachment_3707\">\n<dt><a href=\"http:\/\/batsinbeds.files.wordpress.com\/2012\/01\/rushmere-felled-roost-tree1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"rushmere-felled-roost-tree\" src=\"http:\/\/batsinbeds.files.wordpress.com\/2012\/01\/rushmere-felled-roost-tree1.jpg?w=300\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a><\/dt>\n<dd>Photo Jude Hirstwood felled roost tree<\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n<\/div>\n<p>This has now been granted and the tree has been felled. Mitigation in the form of two bat boxes added on the other side of the road and a section of the original trunk being strapped to a nearby tree has been carried out. We will be keeping a close eye on it to see how successful this mitigation is<\/p>\n<div>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/batsinbeds.files.wordpress.com\/2012\/01\/rushmere-mitigation21.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"rushmere-mitigation2\" src=\"http:\/\/batsinbeds.files.wordpress.com\/2012\/01\/rushmere-mitigation21.jpg?w=225\" alt=\"\" width=\"135\" height=\"180\" \/><\/a><\/li>\n<li>Photo Bob Cornes.<br \/>\nBat boxes as mitigation<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/batsinbeds.files.wordpress.com\/2012\/01\/rushmere-mitigation1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"rushmere-mitigation1\" src=\"http:\/\/batsinbeds.files.wordpress.com\/2012\/01\/rushmere-mitigation1.jpg?w=224\" alt=\"\" width=\"134\" height=\"180\" \/><\/a><\/li>\n<li>Photo Bob Cornes<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 2011 we reported the fact that we had found a Noctule roost at the entrance to Rushmere Country Park. This tree was then damaged during a storm. It was tethered to other trees but the Greensand Trust applied to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bedsbatgroup.org.uk\/wordpress\/?p=3871\">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":[24,26,513],"class_list":["post-3871","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-boxes","tag-roost","tag-rushmere"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bedsbatgroup.org.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3871","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=3871"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.bedsbatgroup.org.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3871\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3874,"href":"https:\/\/www.bedsbatgroup.org.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3871\/revisions\/3874"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bedsbatgroup.org.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3871"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bedsbatgroup.org.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3871"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bedsbatgroup.org.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3871"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}