SAT 2ND SEPT – STOKE ST GREGORY BIG BAT COUNT

This big bat count for Stoke St Gregory environment group was organised by Bryony from SWT, with help from Bindy from the bat group.

Bryony reported the "Big Bat Count on Saturday was a lot of fun! We had 7 groups out, ideal weather and everyone came back on a really high, having recorded bats in various locations around the parish. Bindy was absolutely fantastic sharing lots of bat-facts and sorting out the tech for us".

The groups recorded 120 bat observations across 12 AutoIDed species. Common pipistrelle and noctule were the most frequent, both with approx a third of the sightings. Other AutoIDed records of rarer bats such as barbastelle, Brandt's and Bechstein's will undergo further analysis of the recordings.

Full results are in iNaturalist; https://www.inaturalist.org/observations?created_on=2023-09-02&place_id=any&project_id=all-bats-in-somerset&subview=map&verifiable=any

Publicado el 13 de septiembre de 2023 por somersetbatgroup