bats

[big dave hull]

anyone have any information on bats, i have one that i see everynight flying around my back garden at dusk, and its great to watch, i dont know where to start with trying to photography it but id just like to know in general if its worth while sticking a bat box up on my garage as its quite a high peak? i wouldnt have a clue what it is but spends alot of time over my garden and theres about 8 that back onto each other in a diamond shape

any help would be great

 

[Tringa]

Have a look at this site for some info - http://www.bats.org.uk/pages/all_about_bats.html

We had a bat box up for about seven years and it was never used. It could have been in the wrong place but for a couple of those years a group of 30+ pipistrelles roosted under a neighbour's soffit board about 20 feet from the box.

Good luck with photographing them.

Dave

 

[hollis_f]

Almost certainly a pipistrelle. If you get a batbox stick it on a south-facing wall so that they can be nice and warm. I'm still trying to figure out the best way of photographing them

 

[big dave hull]

yeh luckily my garden gets the sun all day and hardly gets any wind, il get the box up and see what happens