Bat survey season is in full swing which means we are either out late in the evening or up in the early hours watching buildings for emerging bats! Luckily this year we have a new group of keen surveyors helping us out. We held a training evening before the season kicked off to go oversaw to use our bat detectors and we carried out a mock survey at our office (which happens to be a bat roost!)
We have a high number of sites that we are carrying out bat surveys at this year and have had multiple confirmed roosts already. We also have some larger sites to survey this season, so we’ve invested in some brand-new bat detectors.
The cold weather at the start of May meant that we had to hold off on dawn surveys, but we have been able to get a few started in the last couple of weeks. For all our surveys, we follow the Bat Conservation Trust Good Practice Guidelines to make sure all our surveys are carried out in compliance with the expected standards.