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INDOOR MEETINGS
(a summary of past meetings appears at the bottom of this page)
Our
winter indoor meetings
are held at the National Trust’s
Dapdune
Wharf,
Wharf Road, Guildford. Wharf Road is off Woodbridge Road, between the Methodist
church and the southern side of the cricket ground. Go to the end of Wharf Road,
through the National Trust gate on the right, along a roadway over speed bumps
to the car park on the left hand side. We meet at 8:00 p.m.
in the tea-room there.
**Thursday 1st March** (rescheduled
February meeting)
- Assessing bat species numbers in the biodiversity hotspot of SE Asia
Nicola Hammond, bat taxonomist at the Harrison Institute and specialist in
tropical horseshoe bats.
Thursday 15th March - Caroline Moussy, Exeter
University, Serotine bat DNA/stable isotope research project update
BAT BOX CHECKS
The group has a number of well established bat box schemes in the county and we
undertake checks of these periodically in spring and autumn.
Please contact
Ross or Lynn if you would like to come along.
Details will be sent to those on our e-mail list.
HIBERNATION SITE CHECKS
During the course of the winter we carry out a programme of hibernation site checks at various venues
throughout the county. Surveys are done during December, January and February.
For conservation reasons places on these visits are extremely limited but please
let Ross and Lynn know if you are interested in
attending one.
Sorry, our 2012 hibernacula visits are now fully booked
BAT WALKS
There is usually a
charge for bat walks but this does
not apply to Surrey Bat Group members
– if you have a
detector bring it along (without your headphones on this occasion) as this will
enhance the experience for everyone else.
NB – For some of these, special opening arrangements are made for
sites which normally shut by dusk. If you are late,
entrance gates may be locked.
So far we have the following
diary dates for 2012:
Saturday 5th May 2012
National Trust Bat Walk at
Claremont Landscape Gardens
Saturday 14th July 2012
National Trust Bat Walk at
Winkworth Arboretum, near Godalming
Friday 31st August 2012
Haslemere Natural History Society Bat Walk at Frensham Little Pond
Saturday 1st September 2012
National Trust Bat Walk at
Claremont Landscape Gardens
Saturday 8th
September 2012
National Trust Bat Walk at
Winkworth Arboretum, near Godalming
SHOWS & DISPLAYS
Surrey Bat Group is often invited to take part
in events with a wildlife or conservation theme, usually in the summer. If you can help
by manning the Bat Group stand at one of these for part (or all!) of a day please
let Ross and
Lynn know. For 2012 we have already been invited to:
Sunday 20th
May 2012
- NT Claremont Landscape Gardens - Live Local, Love Claremont show
Sunday 1st
July 2012 - Gatton Country Fair, Gatton Park, Reigate
Sunday 16th September
2012
- NT Winkworth Arboretum - Live Local, Love Winkworth show
BAT SURVEYS
The group usually undertakes a
number of bat surveys each year.
Let Lynn and Ross
know if you are interested in helping out.
Past Events - 2012
Thursday 19th January - Stacey Waring, Reading University, Research
on the effects of different roofing membranes on house-roosting bats.
A rather worrying talk, where we learned of the hazards to bat colonies
presented by breathable roof membranes now in use.
Past Events - 2011
Thursday 15th December - Dan Whitby; Identification of Alcathoe and current status of the species in the
UK/Surrey.
A very thorough explanation of Dan's work with the three 'whiskered' bat
species, together with some thought provoking ideas on other UK species and
their habitats.
Thursday 17th November - Tony Hutson, The history of
bat conservation in Britain. Wasn't it all different in those days!
Thursday 20th October - AGM
and an introduction to BCT's new Bat Groups Officer, Lisa Worledge
September 11th - Banstead Countryside Day
Friday 9th
September
National Trust Bat Walk at
Winkworth Arboretum, near Godalming
Sunday 4th September
- Winkworth Arboretum Community Day
Saturday 3rd September
National Trust Bat Walk at Claremont Landscape Gardens
Friday 19th
August
National
Trust Bat Walk at Runnymede
Friday 19th
August
National Trust Bat Walk at Holmwood Common
Three species seen clearly
on this walk, including a really spectacular show from common pipistrelles
feeding in the woods.
Friday 5th
August
National
Trust Bat Walk at Frensham Little Pond
Friday 8th
July
National Trust Bat Walk at
Winkworth Arboretum, near Godalming
No noctules this time, but plenty of common and soprano pipistrelles and a nice
display by Daubenton's bats over the water.
Saturday 7th May National
Trust Bat Walk at Claremont Landscape Gardens (between Esher and Cobham).
Another excellent walk at this wonderful site for bats. Several species seen,
including a group of rare Nathusius' pipistrelles.
Saturday 30th
April Bat Detector Training at Frensham Little Pond
A training session for bat group members at which we came across common and
soprano pips, Daubenton's and a couple of distant noctules.
Thursday 17th March – Bat habitat preferences in urban
areas
Cath Laing (Natural England and Sussex Bat Group)
Some surprising results from two survey projects undertaken in Brighton. Quite
unexpectedly, lots of bat activity was recorded in both survey years, despite
this being one of the most densely populated areas of SE England.
Thursday 17th February
– an illustrated talk by Daniel Hargreaves.
Daniel has travelled the world
seeing and photographing bats. He showed some fantastic pictures of many unusual
looking bats from recent trips to Thailand and Trinidad, and explained the
interesting work he has been doing with local communities to help preserve their rare
species.
Thursday 20th January
– Bat mitigation
schemes under European Protected Species licences: a consultant's experience
- Claire Andrews illustrated the various aspects of the mitigation
process, with plenty of examples from her own experience.
Past Events - 2010
Thursday 16th
December - An integrated approach to studying the conservation biology of the
grey long-eared bat Plecotus austriacus
Orly Razgour and Erika Dahlberg from Bristol University talked of their
recent studies of this very rare UK species giving us lots of physiological and
scientific data.
Thursday 18th
November - Britain's Forgotten Bat: Current data on Nathusius' pipistrelle in
the British Isles
A fact filled talk by Jon Russ, the authority on the species in Britain, in
which we learned much about this little known bat.
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