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2012 Events

Strathspey Bat Group - Bat Box Building

Tuesday 28th Feb 7pm - Nethy Bridge Community Centre

Free to members
Non members—Adult £3.00 / Child & Concession £2
For more information e-contact Melanie Clouston
ranger@nethybridge.com
Tel: 01479 821565

IBG presents 2 talks by John Haddow 8pm Friday 3rd Feb at Tiso (Longman Road, Inverness)

"Radio- Tracking Leislers Bats" followed by "Lots of Bats! Censusing the largest bat hibernation site in Europe"

£3 for non IBG members (£2 for IBG Members) - IBG membership is £5 for the year

2011 EVENTS

Please note that more events may be added.

If you have a bat roost visit or a bat survey you would like us to conduct, please contact us. We are particularly looking for winter hibernation sites, so please let us know of any

When	Where	What	Comments
18/04/11	Members house - Cawdor	Roost Visit	A chance for IBG members to complete a roost visit and handle some bats
20/05/11	Great Glen House - Inverness	Bat Training with Natalie Todman from BCT	Natalie Todman will be doing a Bat Conservation Trust workshop “Using your Ears” - This is an introduction to bats and bat detector workshop open to novice and experienced people alike. This event is open to all. For more information on this workshop visit: http://www.bats.org.uk/pages/introductory_bat_detector_workshops.html
21/05/11	Kilmorack Hall	Bat Talk with Natalie Todman from	Talk on Natalies research of radio Tagging daubenton's bats on the Union Canal. The talk is open to all members of the public.
23/05/11	Ness Islands	Checking Bat boxes	Checking bat boxes to see if there’s any sign of bats in the roost boxes.
27/05/11	Abriachan	BioBlitz Bat walk	A chance to record batty life in the Abriachan Forest.
05/06/11	Feddon Woods, Black Isle	Putting up Bat Boxes	A practcial task to put up 6 Schwegler bat boxes in Feddon Wood and look for bats.
29/07/11	Bat Survey	Bat survey and roost visit	Return to a bat roost from last year.
19/08/11	Bat Survey	Bat survey and roost visit	Return to a bat roost from last year
09/08/11 & 30/08/11	Ness Islands, Inverness	Waterway survey	Waterway survey on River Ness for the National Bat Monitoring Programm
26/08/11	Nairn	Nairn bat walk	A ranger led bat talk and walk
Sept - TBC	River Glass	Bat Survey	Bat survey by canoe
02/09/11	Bat Survey	Bat Survey	Bat watch with Primary school
03/09/11	Bat and Moths	Bat and Moth evening	Bat and moth evening at School wood - Farr
07/09/11	Bat Walk	Bat Walk	Nightlife walk at Fort William - 8-9pm meet at lowest lock at Neptunes staircase
16/09/11	Bat Survey	Wood Bat Survey	Return to a bat roost from last year. Meet after 6pm at Feddon wood
22/10/11 1pm	BatBQ	BBQ	Social event – all members welcome to a barbeque. Contact us for details
25/10/11 7:30-9pm	Eden Court	Forum	Inverness and Nairn Biodiversity Forum. IBG will have a stall
12/11/11	Stirling University	BCT Event	Scottish Bat Workers Conference - Bat Conservation Trust. £40 for members/£45 for non-members. Paid Up members of IBG are £40

If you want to get involved with Bat surveys - please contact the group for details - please note all events are open the public but IBG members will have priority if numbers are limited. Please contact the group to join.

Bat handling can ONLY be done by people who have had their rabies vaccine

2010 Events

Date	Time	Place	Event	Comments
Saturday 17^th May 2010	2:00 – 4:00pm	School Wood Farr	Bat Box building evening – Katy Martin 01463 710786 (work/day) or 01463 790661 (eve)	Building bat boxes to put up in the wood. A HC Rangers event with Inverness Bat Group.
Saturday 15^th May 2010	2:00 – 4:00pm	Abriachan	Good garden animals homes – Katy Martin 01463 710786 (work/day) or 01463 790661 (eve)	Bat box building and habitat creation at Abriachan Forest.
Saturday 5^th June 2010	2:00 – 4:00pm	Merkinch Local Nature Reserve	– Katy Martin 01463 710786 (work/day) or 01463 790661 (eve)Biodiversity Action Day	Biodiversity event with HC Rangers - Again creating batty favourable conditions
Monday 14^th June 2010	7:30pm	Ness Islands	Checking Bat boxes – Katy Martin 01463 710786 (work/day) or 01463 790661 (eve)	Checking bat boxes at Ness Islands for bats. Meet at the car park for Ness Islands
Monday 5^th July 2010	10:00pm	Pub – contact us for details	IBG Meeting Details will be sent to mailing list or contact IBG using Contact us sheet	The next IBG meeting will take place in a pub before the roost visit. Secret location. Contact us for the location, password and secret handshake
Monday 5^th July 2010	10:30pm	Private Residence	Roost Visit – Details will be sent to mailing list or contact IBG using Contact us sheet	A member of IBG has generously allowed us into their home to visit the bats roosting in their attic. Contact us for further information.
Friday 16th July	Sunset	Great Glen House	Introduction to Bats and Bat surveys - with Anne Youngman	A very interesting lecture on bats delivered by Licenced bat trainer Anne Youngman. Followed by a chance to go out and practice bat detector skills.
Saturday 17^th July	Sunset	Great Glen House followed by roost visit	Bat Identification - with Anne Youngman	Do you know your pips from your Daubentons? This is a chance for you to improve you Bat ID skils. Followed by a roost visit for a bit of up close and personal bat handling and identification. PLEASE NOTE - only people with Rabies vaccine can handle bats with licence trainer
Tuesday 3^rd August 2010 and Tuesday 24^th August 2010	Sunset	River Ness	Waterways Survey – Katy Martin 01463 710786 (work/day) or 01463 790661 (eve)Biodiversity Action Day	Waterway bat survey of the River Ness
Saturday 21^st August 2010	5:30	IBG Chair is hosting	Summer Bat-B-Q	Our gracious leader has agreed to put on a summer bonanza – well a BBQ - All bat fans welcome! W can look for red squirrels, badgers, and then fire up the BBQ
Aug/Sep - TBC	Sunset - TBC	TBC	TBC	Roost visit - the details of this roost visit are yet to be confirmed
Friday 27th August	8.00- 9.30pm	Inverness	Bught Park, Inverness	Inverness Bat walk. A chance for people to come along and learn about bats, use a bat detector and see some bats
Friday 3rd September	8.00- 930pm	Dingwall	The greenhouse Community Shop, Dingwall	Dingwall Bat walk. Another chance to get involved, come along and see some bats and use a bat detector
Friday 10^th September 2010	TBC	Corntown	Wildlife Explorers Weekend	Lots of fun Batty stuff. Corntown in the evening
Thursday 16^th September 2010	TBC	Beauly	River Beauly Canoe trip	Bat survey of River Beauly conducted from canoes – was very effective last year - Details to be finalised
Late Summer - TBC	TBC	TBC	Brown Long-Eared bat roost visit	There is a brown long-eared roost there which we will visit in late Summer/early Autumn.
Saturday 13th November	9:30am-4:30pm	SNH Conference Centre, Battleby	Bat Conservation Trust - Scottish Bat Workers Conference 2010	for more info visit: http://www.bats.org.uk/pages/sbc.html
Saturday 7^th May 2011	TBC	TBC	Struy Church Bat event	Details still to finalised

13 August 2007

If you would like to look for bats yourself you could come along to one of the bat walks we have organised throughout the summer

What do you need to bring ?
As we are going to be looking for bats in the evening, you might want to wrap up warm and bring a torch. Depending on where we are going some midge repellent might be essential ! A pair of small plug in headphones which can be used with the bat detectors can help to block out background noise and allow you to hear the bats clearly.

We will provide bat detectors to use and lots of advice and information to help identify the bats that we see.

Upcoming dates

Supporting the Highland Council Ranger Service;

17th August, Farr,
31st August, Inverness - Floral Hall
7th September, River Beauly
14th September, Nairn

See the link below to the Highland council website with more details of these events.

External Link

River Ness Bat walk

19 May 2007

18th May, 7.30pm Inverness Museum

Talk at the museum followed by a walk along the River Ness, despite very cold wet conditions, the group was successful in seeing and listening to some pipistrelles and some daubentons along the river.