Members of the NBG attended the “Matty Batty” event at Mattersey Village last night. Mattersey Church is currently working towards Eco Church status and the NBG Chair, John Parker, made a visit to Mattersey Primary School in February to give a talk about bats – this really engaged the children and John left them with […]
NBG – Defend Nature
Recently we held an emergency meeting to discuss the upcoming legislation changes as a Group. Actions include but are not limited to: Writing to your local MP Writing to your local councillor Promoting relevant articles / webpages on social media When posting using the hashtags #standfornature and #defendnature However, since the meeting and a lot […]
Radcliffe Cliff Walk Bat Box installation
On Sunday 24th April NBG and volunteers from Radcliffe Rockley Park and Cliff Walk helped install 15 Bat Boxes. It was a lovely sunny day with great views across the Trent to Nottingham. The volunteers had major input which allowed the NBG to answer many questions from the public passing who were out for a […]
The Grove Bat Box Installation
4 members and a council representative spent 4 hours installing a variety of bat box types, totalling 15 at The Grove, Burton Joyce today, Sunday 3rd April.
RSPB Langford Lowfields Box Check
11 members attended a Bat Box Check at RSPB Langford Lowfields on Sunday 6th March 2022. 8 Pipistrelle bats were found in 7 Kent boxes outb of the 33 boxes in the scheme. Interestingly 7 of the 8 were in the front slots. Following the […]
Foxcovert Box Check
11 members attended the Bat Box Check at NWT Foxcovert Plantation on Sunday 27th February. A lovely sunny blue sky day. We found 11 Pipistrelle bats in 6 of the 33 boxes on 4 of the 11 trees with boxes. One box had 3 pipistrelles The second activity was to find Potential Roost Features and […]
Creswell Crags Hibernation Survey
Today 14 members arrived at Creswell Crags for an annual Hibernation Survey. This was lead by licensed bat workers following BCT guidelines for hibernation surveys. We searched 5 caves and the first bat took a while to find. It was well hidden away and possibly a Whiskered or Brandts bat. The following cave had 3 […]
International Bat day celebrations at RSPB Sherwood and Budby
A big thank you to everyone who joined us for #InternationalBatNight and a wonderful weekend of batty events at RSPB Sherwood Forest and Budby South Forest. We had two bat walks with common and soprano pipistrelles, noctules, leislers and on Saturday night we even had a pass from a Daubenton’s (Nick’s favourite!). On Saturday a […]
Bat boxes and barbastelles at Foxcovert
On Sunday 9th May, five Nottinghamshire Bat Group members visited Foxcovert Plantation near Calverton to monitor our existing bat box scheme. The day began with members inspecting bat boxes for roosting bats, using an endoscope as part of additional Covid-19 precautions. A brown long-eared bat and two pipistrelles were found to be using the Kent […]
Bat Box Scheme update
Two of our newly installed bat box schemes are now being used by bats. At Bramcote Hills Park Pippistrelle bats have been using the boxes and at Foxcovert Plantation Brown Long Eared bats have moved in. This was quite quick as bats can take a few years to start using boxes.