or if more experienced take on a field survey yourself, choose from the list of Somerset surveys up for grabs below.
The field survey involves visiting your site on two evenings to carry out surveys, during a triangular walk in a one Km square area. The first survey should be between 1st and 15th July and the second survey between 16th and 30th July. The survey begins 20 minutes after sunset and usually takes about 90 minutes.
Field Survey sites up for grabs!
You will need a heterodyne (tuneable) bat detector and experience of identifying the target species. The group have a limited number of bat detectors which we can lend to volunteers, please contact us arrange a loan.
You can either select one of the existing sites below up for grabs, or email the BCT, or ask for a selection of randomly allocated squares near to you.
The 2024 unallocated Field Survey sites are shown on this map:
To find out what’s involved, and how to claim one of these unallocated NBMP Field Survey sites, please see this document.
