Does IR Photography has a role to play it bat surveys rather than standard flash photography ? Not the sharpest images but only my 1st attempts. Lesser horseshoe and Plecotus kolombatovici Lokrum Croatia

gets you like that. wanting to compose and get the 1:100000000 perfect shot 🤣 unlike some who seem to achieve it with ease - no names

photos great

Bernwood SSSI is not to be. NE lacking. So disappointed. much effort over 10yrs. so much for govt commitment to nature when it really matters. the redesignation wouldn’t impact on growth but would strength how SSSI’s are managed for rare species that are actually there. why @tonyjuniper.bsky.social

We've streamlined this process and you can download a spreadsheet outlining all the content required here: www.bats.org.uk/roost-case-studies .

You can browse for other case studies, including our previous two winners, in the above link too!

The BCT Roost Awards are a timely reminder of how important it is to demonstrate good practice & what works. when it comes to dealing with protected species at this time when Govt seems focused on its growth agenda & reducing the burden of protecting our Biodiversity needs you

Great watching our young ecologist deliver and take part in Great crested newt training at our Swanbourne office near Milton Keynes.Lots of laughs with compulsory dunkings & much learned. Training future generations to help with informing the decision making process must be part of the growth agenda

Alarm clock

Time for annual review of Countryside Stewardship agreements, grant claims and catching up with old friends and wonderful landscapes like the Chilterns. Much has been achieved and making plans for lost saracen stones. All under their own steam

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I had assumed the large hard spines (defensive?) on their legs made them less palatable to predictors such as bats but only guessing

Finally out. New paper Full pelage Ultra-Violet fluorescence occurs in both lesser horseshoe bat, Rhinolophus hipposideros & Blasius's horseshoe bat R. blasii www.italian-journal-of-mammalogy.it/Full-pelage-...
Great to be part of the team @henryschofield.bsky.social @vincentwt.bsky.social

Glow up! A European team of bat researchers led by VWT's former Head of Conservation, Henry Schofield — with biologists from Pells Frischmann and Croatian Biospeleological Society — discovered that lesser horseshoe bats glow all over in UV. Find out how this can help monitoring tinyurl.com/bdd8jc5n

Rare bats and biodiverse woodland cannot simply be moved, whatever the UK government claims. What should have moved in the HS2 debacle was the route of the line. I wonder why major construction companies preferred to propose a £100M tunnel instead? 🤔 💷🦇🦤. @craigbennett3.bsky.social

Serotine. One of my favourite #bats! I have a PhD available, using new methods to find serotine roosts and understand movement patterns. Will help to develop a rabies vaccination strategy: a priority for people and bats! Pls share! www.surrey.ac.uk/bbsrc-wessex... @batconservation.bsky.social 🦤🌍🦇

Hibernating brown-long eared bat

Hibernating Natterer’s bat

It’s been a good day visiting hibernation sites in Buckinghamshire

2025 is a significant year for @vincentwt.bsky.social Follow our 50th year as we celebrate past achievements and hopes for the future

Charter for Small Waters - Freshwater Habitats Trust In the Charter for Small Waters, we’ve joined forces with a coalition of environmental charities calling on Government to recognise the vital importance of small freshwaters, and promote their protect...

Ponds and other small freshwater bodies matter. A well written supporting case here freshwaterhabitats.org.uk/news/charter...

welcome. looking forward to seeing some great stiff

some of the many faces of the Borghese Balustrade, @NationalTrust Cliveden

always up for trying something new in my photo journey. Simple pinhole beer can and photo paper. water got i but the cycle of the sun from Jan - Dec 2024 #pinholecamera

Let’s try a giveaway.

Like & Retweet this post and we’ll giveaway a Solarcan and a PUCK camera to one of our followers 💫

Will announce winner tomorrow afternoon

welcome

Brampton church hails solution to bat dropping problem Modest sail-like structures are helping to prevent bat droppings falling on to worshippers.

sometimes ideas work out #bats #churches www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

We all need a winter retreat from doom and gloom. Myotis myotis #bats in Poland enjoying a huddle in deep winter hibernation deep inside WW2 tunnels

i wonder how many built structures with underground / subterranean features up and down the country are used as swarming sites and we just don’t know they are ??? Need a national inventory and assessment (working on an idea)

amazing what structures are used for swarming across the country. need to get a better broader understanding of swarming sites

One ring does not fit all: Evaluation of banding‐related injuries in tricolored bats In a long-term study of overwintering tricolored bats (Perimyotis subflavus) in Georgia, USA, 22.2% of recaptured bats exhibited band-related injuries, whereas 77.8% showed none. Although most injuri...

One ring does not fit all: Evaluation of banding-related injuries in tricolored bats. conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Two Leisler’s in a bat box at NT Stowe this year. first in hand confirmation of this species in the site. Getting more records in local area, have we missed them before or are numbers increasing?

Edging closer to completing the 2nd edition of the Lesser Horseshoe Bat Conservation Handbook! Due out next year #bats #vwt