Twilight Travels

Tag: Daubentons

  • 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…

  • Reflecting on Bats over Water

    Reflecting on Bats over Water

    Pun intended. It’s common to see bright and dark bands in spectrograms of bats flying close to reflective surfaces. Typically, they are seen with Daubenton’s bats flying low over water, but can also seen with any bat species flying near a reflective surface, when the resulting echo overlaps the original chirp. The explanation is straightforward.…

  • 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…