2019
A static bat detector
was placed in Nore Barn Woods in July 2019 by Nik Knight, the
Hampshire Bat recorder.
From the evening of
12/7/19 to the morning of 31/7/19, at least eight bat species
were recorded: common pipistrelle, soprano pipistrelle,
Nathusius’ pipistrelle, serotine, noctule, brown long-eared,
western barbastelle and bats from the genus Myotis, including
Natterer’s. The most significant of these is the rare western
barbastelle, recorded on two successive nights.
Nore Barn Woods turns out to be an excellent area for bats! All these records have been entered into the county bat records database.
2022
Other species recorded
were: Brown
Long-eared,
Common, Soprano
and Nathusius’ Pipistrelles,
Noctule,
Leislers, Serotine and assorted
Myotis bats
(which in most
cases can’t be identified
reliably from
spectrograms). One
of the
Myotis
recordings on 4/5/22
is likely to be a Natterers bat.
Others could
well be Daubentons.
We
look forward to taking further
recordings in the spring next year.