Activities
The activities that we have undertaken so far are:
- Talks and walks to encounter bats
- Presentations and Event Attendance
- Transect surveys
- Emergence Surveys – counting bats coming out of roosts
- Static Detector surveys – having a detector in your garden
- Roost Inspections
- Catching bats using mist nets and harp traps
- Ringing
- Infra-Red Filming
- Data Analysis – identifying bats from their ultrasonic echolocation calls
- Endoscope surveys – looking for bat roosts in trees
How Can You Help?
- Send details of bat activity
- Send details of roosts
- Host a bat detector in your garden
- Take part in transects and roost counts
- Ask other people if they know of bats in the valley
- Talk to people about how interesting bats are
Focused Activities for 2018
- Endoscope surveys to find tree roosts
- Establishing extent of important foraging ranges of specific species such as barbastelle
- Backtracking flyways
- Continued random and focused surveys
- Continued public awareness