Bat ROCK Habitat Key

During January this year, Aaron Davies found a Plecotus auritus in a wall pocket feature in a limestone wall of an iron mine. A resurvey a month later in February found the Plecotus auritus still tucked in.

During February this year, Aaron Davies found a Plecotus auritus in a wall pocket feature in a limestone wall of an iron mine.

In January this year, Hal Starkie and Aaron Davies found a Myotis nattereri in a limestone ceiling borehole of an iron mine.

We have received a few Subterranean Rock records; some we will be sharing with you here over the next few weeks. The Subterranean Rock database has been updated.

Back in January 2020, Henry Andrews recorded a Myotis daubentonii and a Myotis nattereri in a crevice located in a brick-lined limestone wall of a railway tunnel.

Please remember to submit your rock records!

We'd like to thank everyone for their record submissions to the BRHK this past year.

We are looking forward to your 2025 submissions!

Wishing you all a very happy Christmas and New Year! 🎄

🦇Don't forget to submit your records!🦇

Records can be submitted to the database by taking a photograph of the recording form (found on the website), or by completing the Excel spreadsheet (or both the photo of the recording form AND the spreadsheet), and emailing them WITH photos of the feature and bat(s) to [email protected].

Bat Rock Habitat Key Welcome to the Bat Rock Habitat Key project website. Please note that as of 17th April 2023 Henry Andrews has very generously handed over the ongoing management of the Bat Rock Habitat Key Project to the Bat Conservation Trust. You will see a new email address ([email protected]) on each database pag...

HEADS-UP!

I am very pleased to be able to tell you all that Bat Conservation Trust have agreed to take the BRHK Project forward.

Sonia Reveley and Jan Collins will be settling it into its new home.

We would ask for your patience while the FB page and website are transferred.

Thank you,

Henry

Steve Allen and Bruce Shortland found this Myotis nattereri roosting in flowstone pleats on the wall of a railway tunnel.

I've been wondering for a while if I should take a pottery class and build some of these sort of features for bat houses...

HEADS UP!

After the project put out BRiR someone asked if we could do a bridge roost book. As I was asked to look at some bridges over the winter, and my own experiences are few, I pulled together the information I could find and have now written it all up as a guidance note. I would very much like some critical feedback and so I have put the draft on the project website at:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/15wmHynE9Z0CdfzgDGK1B4WyTGGRn5f-2/view

Feel free to download it and tell me everything that is wrong with it!

Thanks,

Henry

BRHK 2023. BRIDGE BAT ROOSTING ECOLOGY & SURVEY - Version 1 - March 2023 - Draft for comment.pdf

Back in April 2022, Tom Elliott recorded an Eptesicus serotinus and a Myotis sp. in a rock face in Somerset... Just as in houses, the E. serotinus had gone in and down so it always pays to explore below the entrance!

Just before Christmas I was sent a copy of this journal by Erik Korsten.

It's a special publication - Hibernating bats in the Netherlands and Flanders.

Anyone working with subterranean situations AND high-rise modern buildings in the UK should read this journal. My recommendation would be to read it from the last paper to the first.

There is a LOT in here that is new and a good deal more that fills in gaps and will answer nagging questions. In addition, there are some really innovative ideas for surveying and monitoring, which the authors have proved work, and describe as a step-by-step method.

Buy it, beg it or steal it... you need to read it.

Cracking new roost record submitted by James Humphries and Aaron Davies.

Plecotus auritus in a crack on a sandstone crag in darkest Neath 👍🙂

Nice record that!