Twilight Travels

Category: bats

  • The Bats of Egrove Park (part 1): Diversity

    The Bats of Egrove Park (part 1): Diversity

    The second part of the this blog series can be found here. Summary Egrove Park provides a range of habitats including woodland, meadow and water. The site is managed for wildlife. Woodland areas provide roosting opportunities for bats, with paths and other shaded linear features providing access to extensive mature woodland and wetland habitats. In…

  • BatGizmo – A Full Spectrum Bat Detector

    BatGizmo – A Full Spectrum Bat Detector

    The BatGizmo is a full spectrum bat detector that I started work on during covid lockdown. This page outlines the design decisions that I took, including both the successful and the less successful ones. My hope is that this will prove useful to others. Gallery Spectrograms are rendered with batogram. Aims My aim was to…

  • Barbastelles at Great Bedwyn

    Great Bedwyn is pleasant village with church, pub, post office shop and small general shop. There is access by train and canal, and if you arrive by canal, it is a convenient place to stock up on food, fill up with water at the CRT water point, and wind your boat at the winding hole…

  • The Bats of Dore Abbey

    Dore Abbey is confusingly to be found by the village of Abbey Dore, near the river Dore in the Golden Valley, Herefordshire, close to the border between England and Wales. The name probably originates with the Normans confusing the Welsh dŵr (water) with the French d’or (of gold). The same naming confusion exists in connection…

  • Daubenton’s Bats on the Thames

    A warm evening by the Thames is conducive to insects, and insects attract bats. I decided to take my newly designed and built bat detector for a walk and see what I could find. Equipment I intend a future geeky blog article about the detector. For now, here is a picture of it. It is…

  • Bats at Thrupp Lake

    The flooded former gravel pits between Abingdon and Radley provide a haven for a wide variety of wildlife. If you take a seat near the edge of Thrupp Lake just after sunset on a warm evening, you are likely to glimpse bats flitting past