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New detectors to help us map the bats of Derbyshire
As technology progresses the price of it keeps coming down and it is now possible to purchase a full-spectrum recording bat detector for less than the price of a zero-crossing...
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Lockdown Lunacy
I’ve had one of the Group’s Anabat Express detectors out in my South Derbyshire garden since December to see how much bat activity there was over the winter.
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Lockdown Nathusius'
In spite of the limited amount of surveying taking place during the Covid 19 lockdown period we have received two records of one of our rarest county bats.
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The Great Lockdown Bat Survey - Results In
Thank you to everyone who took part in the Derbyshire Lockdown Bat Survey on Friday 22nd May and Friday 29th May.
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The Key to Echolocation
By now we would have delivered our annual Introduction to Bats training course for Derbyshire Wildlife Trust members.
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COVID-19 Announcement
COVID-19 Announcement Following new advice from the Prime Minister issued on Monday 16th March 2020 to avoid all unnecessary social contact, we have taken the decision to postpone all of our...
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Winter Wanderings Part 2
As in December I left one of the Group’s Anabat Express detectors out in my South Derbyshire garden throughout January.
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White Peak Caves
On the last weekend in January eight members of Derbyshire and Staffordshire bat groups teamed up to undertake a joint hibernation survey of four caves owned by the National Trust...
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Winter Wanderings
All UK bats hibernate through the winter – it’s one of the first things we learn when getting interested in bats.
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Cave Activity
One of the caves we undertake winter hibernation surveys at for the National Bat Monitoring Programme near Wetton Mill in the Manifold Valley has had no bats spotted in it...