Tuesday 21 December 2010

Season's Greetings

Hi All, I know this is a bit early but I'm off the web or should I say 'net' for a couple of weeks. Just wanted to say a great big Happy Christmas. Thanks too, to everyone for making this last year of batting so successful and such great fun. Hope you all have a Happy and Healthy 2011.
Keep Batting
Best Wishes
Net

Thursday 2 December 2010

Bats spotted out and about

Hi All,

Aline has pointed out that on the Ceredigion bird blog http://ceredigionbirds33.blogspot.com/ there has been mention of bats being seen out and about very recently and is concerned that they may have been disturbed. As I understand it, and I might be completely wrong here, male bats will come out and about late into the autumn/winter if the weather is clement; mating goes on even when the females are asleep sometime - shameful behaviour. The conditions would have to be good for the bats to replenish the energy lost however so coming out in the day in this type of weather does seem to be at odds and a bit worrying. Can anyone throw any light on this behaviour please?

Net