Bat box checks at a site near Mortimer, fewer bats than usual but we found a few soprano pipistrelles, singles & harems, plus one box with 8 long-eared bats. Still quite warm for October but maybe some have already moved closer to hibernation sites?

🦇 The National Bat Care Conference is a 1-day event for anyone involved with bat care in the UK. Join us on 8 November at the Mercure Cardiff and online. It's an opportunity for bat rehabilitators and vet professionals to share knowledge and update skills: www.bats.org.uk/our-work/con...

National Bat Care Conference - Conferences & Symposia - Bat Conservation Trust

The National Bat Care Conference is a one-day event for anyone involved with bat care in the UK. The aim of the conference is to provide an opportunity ...

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Beautiful warm evening for a bat walk at the Nature Discovery Centre, Thatcham, with @berksbatgroup.bsky.social. Lots of soprano pipistrelles, common pipistrelles, noctules and Daubenton's over and around the lake.

A couple of projects may contribute to our knowledge on this - one on a soft fruit farm in Berkshire and the other on a farm with orchards in north Hampshire

Lisa Worledge@battylisa.bsky.social · 4w ago

Agricultural pests can evolve resistance to pesticides but nature can provide a pest control service & that’s exactly what the 19.4mn wrinkled-lipped free tailed bats can do for the rice farmers of six countries of South East Asia! #NatBatConf 🦇❤️🦇

Bat group members bat walk at @bbowt.bsky.social Nature Discovery Centre in Thatcham, West Berks, next Tuesday 29 September 6:45pm

Bat box checking in the woods - returning a male soprano with his harem of females to a small box, and a hibernation box which has had noctules and retained a strong fragrance which everyone queued up to partake of!

New blog post on the website about our autumn bat box checks berksbats.org.uk/bat-box-chec...

Bat box checks - what's in the box?

A closer look at Clayfield Copse By Claire Andrews Over the coming weeks, members of the Berkshire and South Buckinghamshire Bat Group will be taking part in a series of bat box checks across the reg...

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This little cutie came in to Bat Rescue Berkshire today. Just hanging out somewhere unsuitable, she’s a good weight so as long as she passes her flight test this evening she’ll be going home tomorrow, or at least to some more promising habitat next door to the industrial site where she was found