Gallery 1 - Some of the Bats living in Surrey

 

Gallery 2 - Traditional Roosting Places         Gallery 3 - Artificial Roosting Places         Gallery 4 - Surrey Bat Group at Work

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Warning: Gloves should always be worn when handling bats as, like any wild animal, they may bite if alarmed.

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		A '55' pipistrelle, Pipistrellus pygmaeus Photo: © Surrey Bat Group
		A '45' or common pipistrelle, Pipistrellus pipistrellus Photo: © Surrey Bat Group
		Brown long eared bats, Plecotus auritus, huddled together in a cottage roof Photo: © Surrey Bat Group
		A brown long eared bat with ears folded away to give a good view of the tragus Photo: © Surrey Bat Group
		A torpid Daubenton's bat, Myotis daubentonii, attracts a covering of dew Photo: © Surrey Bat Group
		A Natterer's bat, Myotis nattereri, tucked snugly into some crumbling brickwork Photo: © Surrey Bat Group
		A group of noctule bats, Nyctalus noctula, in a bat box hibernaculum Photo: © Surrey Bat Group
		A Leisler's bat, Nyctalus leisleri Photo: © Surrey Bat Group
		A newly ringed specimen of one of Britain's rarest bats, the barbastelle Barbastella barbastellus Photo: © Surrey Bat Group
		Another very rare bat, the Bechstein's Myotis bechsteini Photo: © Surrey Bat Group
		The Whiskered and Brandt's bats are very hard to distinguish during hibernation Myotis mystacinus/brandti Photo: © Surrey Bat Group
		A serotine bat Eptesicus serotinus trapped during one of our surveys Photo: © Surrey Bat Group
		A  rare Bechstein's bat contrasted with a Natterer's   Photo: © Surrey Bat Group
		This noctule bat doesn't appreciate that we're trying to help!  Photo: © Surrey Bat Group
		An excellent shot of noctule bat dentition, showing the curious fatty cheek tissue Photo: © Surrey Bat Group

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