Nore Barn Woods Bat Survey May 2024
I am pleased to repot the findings of this years bat survey.
Bat recorder located at 30 Maisemore Gardens adjacent to Nore Barn Rythe from 13/05 until 31/05.
A total 6069 individual recordings were analysed. Analysis showed that 9 different species were identified. A total of 70 records of Barbastelle were observed. These occurred most nights over the period.
This is most significant as this species is very rare and is subject to very high levels of protection, and the areas of their grazing are highly sensitive. The regular recordings indicate that these bats are in transit from their roosting location to their feeding grounds within the wood, the adjacent fields and along the shoreline. This also highlights the importance of Nore Barn North Woods being used as an important wildlife corridor.
Soprano Pipistrelle bats made the most recordings, twice as many as the Common Pipistrelle. Less frequent were the recordings of Noctule and Serotine.
Nathusius Pipistrelle, Long-eared, and at least 2 species of Myotis bats make up the 9 species recorded.
We thank Nik Knight for the loan of his recorder, and the considerable amount of work in analysis of the data. While software is able to provide a large amount of automatic analysis, manual identification was required for 924 records.
Sor more about Nore Barb Woods go to:
www.norebarnwoods.org.ukBarry King-Smith September 2024
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Monday February 03, 2025