Brue Valley Big Bat Survey Training Workshop "Using Your Ears" Friday 15h July 2016, 7-11pm, with Ed Wells & Somerset Bat Group at Somerset Earth Science Centre. Please reply if attending ASAP to: SercRecords@somerc.com
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Updated Summer 2016 events programme
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Brue Valley & East Mendip Bat Survey Volunteers Training workshop Fri 15/7/16
15th July Training Event SESC
Volunteers needed for Brue Valley Big Bat Survey, 5th Aug 2016
If you do sign up for the Brue Valley Big Bat Survey at Avalon Marshes near Glastonbury, please let me know too, as I then have an idea of numbers needed for teams. Aiming to survey 10 transects so we will need teams of 3 or 4 for each transect (walk of approx. 1.5hrs). Meet at … Continue reading Volunteers needed for Brue Valley Big Bat Survey, 5th Aug 2016
In Memory of Lou Pickersgill
1st July 2013 Lou Pickersgill died in June 2013 at the age of 64. Until her final illness Lou was Secretary of the Somerset Bat Group, a member of Dorset Bat Group and Avon Bat Group, Treasurer of the Somerset Mammal Group, Chairman of the Yeovil Area Group of the Somerset Wildlife Trust, a Voluntary … Continue reading In Memory of Lou Pickersgill
Aerial acrobats – Somerset Life article
We're famous! (almost). This article on your Bechsteins work was published 28th Feb 2013 in Somerset Life magazine. https://www.somerset-life.co.uk/out-about/wildlife/aerial-acrobats-of-somerset-39-s-ancient-woods-1-1640256 Excerpt below: If you go down to the woods today, you're sure of a big surprise. No, not teddy bears, but the rare Bechstein's bat species. The Somerset Bat Group elaborates On a muggy, starless night, … Continue reading Aerial acrobats – Somerset Life article