Filling in the blanks

A team of surveyors from the Bat Group visited four unrecorded tetrads on the west of the county last night and found bats in all of them The locations were along the Erewash Valley Trail and some of the square only contained a small part of land. The first stop was near East Midlands Parkway station, […]

Three years of Nathusius’ pipistrelle monitoring

Nottinghamshire Bat Group is about to embark on its fourth summer as part of the Bat Conservation Trust National Nathusius’ Pipistrelle Project. On this day three years ago, at Attenborough Nature Reserve, we caught our first Nathusius’ pipistrelle on our first survey for this ‘citizen science’ project; he was ringed A4071. Recently, six of our […]

Center Parcs bat boxes

The Center Parcs holiday village is one of the best sites in the county for bats as it has a great range of habitats so beloved by this group.  The village has over 250 bat boxes of various types and these have been surveyed over many years. The group undertook its usual Spring checks of […]

EchoLocation Location project update

Our Heritage Lottery funded Echolocation Location project is well on it’s was to meet our minimum recording target of 80% of the tetrads (2km x 2 km squares) in Nottinghamshire.  With some data yet to entered into our database we have reached 65% coverage with records from 403 tetrads.  The magic number we need to reach is […]

Serotine back in Notts?

The serotine Eptesicus serotinus is one of the UK’s largest bat species. They mainly roost in buildings, particularly old buildings, and are rarely found in trees. They mainly eat flies, moths, beetles and chafers. Serotines are primarily found to the south of the Midlands and in Wales, although a summer roost was recently discovered near Duffield […]

Nathusius’ Project update

We’ve had another great year with the BCT Nathusius’ pipistrelle project.  Lots of bats caught and recorded including several recaptures from previous years.  A full update can be downloaded from our Nathusius’ Project page

New bat species for the City of Nottingham

Bat Group member Amelia Reddish had a big surprise when she went to collect a bat that had been found on the outside wall of a care home close to Nottingham City centre.  Expecting it to be a pipistrelle or perhaps even a myotis species, which have been found grounded in the city, she was […]

Barbastelle project success

The Barbastelle bat is Nottinghamshire’s rarest bat species and as part of our Heritage Lottery funded EchoLocation Location project we have been using specialist techniques to find out more about them in the county and to hopefully find our first roost.  By fitting tiny radio transmitters to bats that have been trapped our survey team […]

Bat detector training at the Idle Valley Nature Reserve

12 people attended the latest of our introductory bat detector workshops at the Idle Valley Nature Reserve on Sunday evening.  These sessions have been developed to help people new to bat detectors start on the road to becoming fully fledged bat detectorists.  A basic heterodyne detector costs less than £60 and with a little bit […]

An unfortunate bats adds a new species for an area

Bat rescue and rehabilitation is one of the core remits of Nottinghamshire Bat Group. In June and July, when pups are being born, this can be a busy time of year for our ‘bat carers’. It can be especially busy when the weather is wet and windy in these months, as mums and their offspring […]