Oxfordshire Bat Group
@oxbatgroup.bsky.social
We are a dedicated group of volunteers with a shared passion for bats. As a registered charity and proud partner of the Bat Conservation Trust, our mission is to promote the recording and conservation of bats across Oxfordshire and beyond.
Why would an animal weighing less than a teaspoon bother flying 150 miles in a night? We have fitted almost 100 with 'airtags for bats' to find out. When one flies near an iPhone, its position is pinged to us. Look what Mike and Mira did last night! @batconservation.bsky.social @sussex.ac.uk
Going through our archive, loving the old Bat Conservation Trust address label!
A huge thanks to Richard Crompton for his informative and entertaining talk last night on bats and technology, and also thank you to all who attended! The recording of the talk will be going out shortly to Oxfordshire Bat Group members who were unable to attend.
🦇 October is nearly upon us and although we will be seeing fewer bats flying there will be more representations of bats as Halloween draws closer. Join Bat Conservation Trust today to help us inform and educate more people about bats: www.bats.org.uk/membership/s...
🦇 Today is #InternationalPodcastDay ! Season 8 of BatChat is coming soon, on the 4 November - save the date. Watch the trailer below. Seasons 1 - 7 are available in your usual podcast platform or here: www.bats.org.uk/resources/ba...
Your Daily Dracula – Sesame Street ‘Batty Bat’ (2019) www.youtube.com/watch?v=287O...
Sesame Street: Batty Bat | Animated Lyric Video
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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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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 🦇❤️🦇
One of the dangers of going to @batconservation.bsky.social #NatBatConf …ALL THE GOODIES 🦇😍 @emmaillustrate.bsky.social @bzillustrations.bsky.social
🦇 Although some bat species might take advantage of the insects flying around lamp posts and other lighting, artificial lighting can be extremely disturbing to bats and should be avoided. More info here: www.bats.org.uk/about-bats/t... Thank you Gail for helping this little one!
Gail Armstrong@gailbatlady.bsky.social · last mo.🦇🦇🦇 The bright lights of Bowness town centre lured this Brown long-eared youngster out of his woodland home. Desperately thin when rescued at 4.87g. He drank puppy milk, ate a waxworm and now thinks he doesn't need me anymore. He will be here a while, I'd say he's misinformed. 😅 #lovebats #batcare
So, we found a live bat in our galleries. 🦇 a thread🦇
Another fun trip to Legoland for bat box checks! Still yet to meet any bats here (typically that happened last month when I couldn’t attend) but the boxes are definitely being used so maybe next visit - third time lucky?
🦇 August is here. At around six weeks old, the young bats begin to catch insects for themselves and no longer need their mothers’ milk. The summer maternity colonies begin to disperse and bats may move to mating roosts.
Bat listening to good music on an expensive record player while pretending to like wine
A blog from our colleagues at Buglife highlighting the potential dangers posed by light pollution from new satellite projects www.buglife.org.uk/blog/what-ha... To understand how light pollution impacts bats and for guidance on reducing the impact see: www.bats.org.uk/about-bats/t...
Buglife blog ~ What happens if the night is no more?
Find out more about What happens if the night is no more? in the Buglife blog.
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ESO@eso.org · 3mo agoHow many satellites in Earth orbit is too many? 🚨 Since 2019, the number of satellites orbiting Earth has increased to over 14 000 today. Current proposals aim at adding 1.7 million more satellites in the future. The most extreme plans come from SpaceX & Reflect Orbital 👇 🔭 🧪 ☄️ #DarkSkies 1/2
🦇 Did you know brown long-eared bats love perching in their favourite spot and eat moths? They are not so keen on the wings though... This photo, taken by Mike Mullis, is a collection of moth wings left by a brown long-eared bat from underneath its feeding roosts in his barn in East Sussex (cont)
My nephew’s first birthday so planting seeds. Side note: Worms dressed as bats look great.
We need to talk about poor journalism and blatant misinformation. Tom Howard published this article in The Times today with the rage bait title ‘Scrap newt and bat rules to ease London housing crisis ministers told’ which is more than just bad journalism, it’s actually an embarrassing mistake🧵
What a lovely day at the Oxford Nature Festival last Saturday at @morethanadodo.bsky.social!🐝 A big thank you to everyone who made the Oxford Nature Festival such a great day. We loved chatting with many of you, the museum team and other stall holders, and sharing our passion for local wildlife. 🦋
🦇 BCT and 100+ organisations have sent a letter to the next Prime Minister of the UK to adopt 4 critical measures for nature. Join us & sign this petition to urge the next PM to take decisive action and reset the Government's approach to safeguarding nature: www.change.org/p/a-nature-r...
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🦇 June is nearly over and flew by. In June, female bats usually give birth to a single baby, called a pup, which they feed on their milk. Young bats are very small (less than an inch) and pink with little to no fur. They will soon grow a thin, slightly grey fur.
🦇 It's not just butterflies this particular type of pesticide kills; it is also moths and other insects which bats and other wildlife eat and rely on. Please support if you can.
Butterfly Conservation@savebutterflies.bsky.social · 4mo agoBan butterfly-killing pesticides for good ❌ Despite repeated promises to ban them, the UK Government has quietly granted yet another 'emergency' license to spray butterfly-killing pesticides across our fields this summer.
Back to Legoland, this time to do bat box checks! It’s a great area but we unfortunately didn’t find anything, although we did see fresh droppings so fingers crossed for next time. It was still a fun day, where we learnt interesting facts about badger fur and I came home with a bechstein!
Come and learn all things bats at the Nature Festival! Make a bat finger puppet, colour in a bat decoration, or walk the museum bat trail 🦇 Find out more: thenaturefestival.org @morethanadodo.bsky.social @bbowt.bsky.social @naturerecovery.bsky.social @ecioxford.bsky.social @oxbatgroup.bsky.social
Interesting species of bat spotted at Legoland.
🦇 We're one week into June already; where did May go?! In June, female bats usually give birth to a single baby, called a pup, which they feed on their milk. Young bats are very small (less than an inch) and pink with little to no fur. They will soon grow a thin, slightly grey fur.
