Bat Carers Workshop

National Bat Carers Workshop

Saturday 8 October

Media Resource Centre, Llandrindod Wells

10.30 am – 16.15 pm

If you want to go along please contact Steve Lucas at BCT

National Bat Conference

National Bat Conference

There are still some places left at the National Bat Conference taking place on 16^th to 18^th September at the University of Warwick. To book your place or for information on the programme please see the BCT website at:

www.bats.org.uk/pages/national_bat_conference.html.

Don't miss out

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Seagull eats 5 live bats

Well this might answer those questions about why bat numbers are plummeting! I'm often asked what the main predator of bats is and I usually say cats but I will be more circumspect next time!

Thanks Jon for pointing this out this amazing YouTube footage.

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Second Old Goginan square walk

Aline and Chris did the second walkover for the NBMP, looking for Noctules, Serotines, and Pipistrelle bats on Friday. It was not quite as exciting as the first walkover, but we did pick up a couple of Noctule passes. The pips were out again, but possibly because of the fairly strong wind we could not find any in the more exposed sections of the walk.
These NBMP surveys have to be done during July, so we won't be doing any other sites this year, but hopefully we will manage to monitor at least 2 sites next year?