The Big Bat Map
The Bat Conservation Trust has put chiropterology (that’s the study of bats) on the map with its new interactive, web-based database of bat activity. It is encouraging everyone to record their sightings of bats – wherever they might be: woodland, park, or even in your back garden.
Many woodland owners have bats living in their wood, and this is an easy and quick way to record sightings. Bats are an important indicator of a healthy environment, and a record of their distribution will help us all preserve their future.
The process is simple: just type in the postcode of where you made the sighting and fill in where, when and how many. Find out more at www.bats.org.uk/bigbatmap
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7 comments so far
nick mahler
7 August, 2009
one bat spotted every evening at dusk se1 7bz
sandra butler
7 August, 2009
PO4 9QH
Seen every evening in the summer at around dusk at the Highland Road Cemetery in Southsea
Cant tell how many because they move so quick and I dont think they are the smallest bats but i can hear them squeak sometimes.
Stephen Palmer
9 August, 2009
That’s good news. Thanks for brining it to our attention.
catherine
28 August, 2009
Please note everyone, that you need to go to the Bat Conservation Trust’s website http://www.bats.org.uk/bigbatmap to fill in your details! Please don’t leave them here or they won’t be recorded!
GJW
6 October, 2009
My family owns woodland at Penmaenuchaf above Penmaenpool, near Dolgellau, and this is a real haven for bats. At dusk, you will regularly see lesser horseshoe bats. Last autumn, Soprano pipistrelles were seen feeding around the trees and along the woodland track and one brown long-eared bat was also heard flying past. Our immediate neighbours the Penmaenuchaf Hall Hotel ( http://www.penhall.co.uk ) also has 20 acres of woodland. This has been designated a Site of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI) for its colony of lesser horseshoe bats and forms part of Coedydd Derw a Safloedd Meirion Special Area of Conservation (SAC). The woods are well worth a visit for bat spotters!
Gillian
14 August, 2010
Have seen two bats flying round my property most evenings
these past few weeks.
NG14 5AS
john
15 June, 2011
just counted 162 bats leaving neighbours roof in Lowick between 10pm & 10.20pm