Conserving and understanding bats in Northumberland
Exploring Bat Activity in a North East Upland Landscape: An Audiomoth Study Author: Darren Archer There are some places in the North East that are just too dangerous to do bat walks. One of those is the lead mine scarred landscape of Weardale. Whilst the land is open access moorland, its undulating nature; stream cut … Read more
Update for Northumberland Bat Group relating to the Nathusius Pipistrelle project and the installation of a MOTUS station, to enable the tracking of tagged Nathusius Pipistrelles as they fly past. Further increasing our knowledge of this species.
A summary of all the bat walks undertaken in 2023. A busy year with walks each month between April and October.
On a windy and wet night at Chesters’ Roman Museum bats were still recorded emerging from their roost. Links to some nice videos of bat emerging are in this article.
Tina presented a talk summarising nine years of data from the hibernation surveys that she has been organising each year.
The first talk of the year (9th March) kicked off with a well presented talk on bat identification by Sam Talbot. She was supposed to have been co-hosting this talk, but for various reasons became the sole presenter. However Nic did make a mad dash from Macclesfield over the M62 in the snow, to arrive … Read more
National Bat Monitoring Programme (NBMP) Hibernation Surveys January and February 2023 After a Covid induced break, we have been back out surveying the lead mine adits for hibernating bats. A few of us did a recce in December to check on the status of the mines after such a long absence. We found five bats, … Read more
Back in January of 2022, Northumberland Bat Group applied for funding to two funding sources: Environmental Records Information Centre (ERIC) North East – Small Grants Fund. Bat Conservation Trust – Partner Group Support Fund. The applications from NBG were submitted to gain funding so that we could buy eight new hand held bat detectors; to … Read more
On the 16th September 2022 NBG received an email via the bat group website, asking if we could provide a sample of bat hair. The email read: I appreciate that this is a very unusual email! I’m a PhD student working in the University of Leeds department of chemistry, and I’m particularly interested in how … Read more
Write up of the recent Northumberland Bat Group survey visit to Brinkburn Priory and Manor house.