19 April – 5 May microbat survey
Checking the bat boxes initially with a red torch to reduce disturbance we quickly found single Goulds Wattled Bats in box 16 – small bat had been in residence for a while! Box 45 had 2, box 5 had 1.
Best find of the day – a group of large and small GW bats approximately 5/6 in box 8 which hasn’t been occupied for a couple of months. It grew dark quickly so we were unable to complete all boxes.
(The video is better! If you’d like me to text it to you)We checked boxes for May and replace batteries and SD card in our Songmeter minibat 2 loan from Faunatech. Set to trip record bat calls for 30 mins before sunset and 30 mins after sunrise.
17 nights produced 1,319 files – to be analysed asap