| Archive for Downsizer For an ethical approach to consumption |
| bernie-woman |
Bat nightWe held a bat night at the local nature reserve on Friday night - a damp drizzly evening - not expecting too many people to turn up (depsite making 110 individual cakes the day before - just in case) - what a pleasant surprise to find 98 people turn up
It was a very busy night doing some batty activities in the local church hall (getting kids and some adults to cut out a bat and colour it in and staple it to a very long bendy straw and then some games to illustrate to the kids how sonar works), tea, coffee, squash and cakes then off to the local churchyard armed with bat detectors and then down to the pool to see some more
Had an absolutely brilliant time and am so pleased that there are so many people in my community willing to suport and get involved with the nature reserve
|
||||
| sally_in_wales |
Excellent, bat walks are great fun
|
||||
| oddballdave |
And we all stood around listening to pipistrel flying about. Saw another flying over the pond, but it was too far away to hear the call to work out what it was.
Dave |
||||
| nettie |
I'd love to go on one of those. Never seen anything advertised round here though 
|
||||
| bernie-woman |
So you were there Dave - you have to be the guy who arrived first on the motorbike with your son?? - if that was you it was very nice to meet you
|
||||
| dpack |
good ,the more folk see nature for real the better .
i like batwatching but my first sight of a noctrel was a bit worrying ,very hammer moment as it flew up a path by a kernow churh at dusk ,well gothic  .
|
||||
| oddballdave |
Yes that was us. The bike in the flesh as it is in the avater! Very distinctive. |
||||
| FiddlesticksTim |
A bat night. What a lovely idea. I've had an idea for a village event, Mrs F.....!! | ||||
| oddballdave |
You need to get in touch with your local/county 'bat' people. They have an electrical box. Microphone/Speaker which can bring bat 'calls' down to human hearing. So you can hear them flying around above your head even though you can't necessarily see them. Makes for a much more interesting evening. |
||||
| Rosa |
That sounds really good. We get a lot of bats in our garden. | ||||
| ros |
Sounds great, I'd love to be able to tell which ones we have........
what did you mean so humans can hear them? I can hear the squeaky din "ours" make ! |
||||
| Nick |
http://www.essexwt.org.uk/Centres/Bedfords.htm Too late for last month's, but I bet they are regular. |
||||
| sean |
They will be if they're fruit-bats. | ||||
| bernie-woman |
Using bat detectors whoch help you hear the sounds really clearly - if you are lucky
|
||||
| lassemista |
I saw one last night outside the local farm shop. Should they not be sleeping by now? Or has the mild weather kept them up?
Andrea. |
||||
| tahir |
They do them at Stapleford Abbotts/Havering Atte Bower (Bedfords Park????) somewheren in Brentwood too. |
||||
| Silas |
If you are handy with a soldering iron, you can buy a bat detector kit, I made one of these some years ago and they are great! |