{"id":5805,"date":"2012-06-01T11:15:52","date_gmt":"2012-06-01T11:15:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bedsbatgroup.org.uk\/wordpress\/?p=5805"},"modified":"2012-06-03T07:51:13","modified_gmt":"2012-06-03T07:51:13","slug":"looking-for-bechsteins-day-one","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bedsbatgroup.org.uk\/wordpress\/?p=5805","title":{"rendered":"Looking for Bechstein’s Day One"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Photo Lia Gilmour<\/p><\/div>\n

Lia Gilmour joined us yesterday with an impressive pile of equipment. She and Bob went out to look for suitable trapping sites in Kings Wood Houghton Conquest. The wood was looking particularly fine<\/p>\n

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

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While we were there we found a beautiful\u00a0 Light Emperor moth<\/p>\n

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As night fell, a small group of people staggered into the wood carrying equipment and set up harp traps , lures and mist nets, then settled down to wait<\/p>\n

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

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Bill looks like he is bored to death here, but he is daydreaming about owning a Griffin one day.<\/p>\n

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

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

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Lia took charge of the harp trap<\/p>\n

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This brown long eared bat was a gentle soul<\/p>\n

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

We\u00a0 also caught this male Noctule who\u00a0 looks very gentle but was a feisty gentleman who really didn’t approve of being caught and was very vocal in his complaints.<\/p>\n

No Bechstein’s though – better luck next time.<\/p>\n

On examining the recordings we made we can confirm the presence of barbastelle in this wood.<\/p>\n

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