David de Gernier: May 2008 Archives
You can download copies of the Dundee Bat Project survey record sheets at this link. Please print out the first sheet on A4 in portrait mode, then put paper back in printer and print the second sheet in landscape on the back.
recording sheet p1.doc
Recording sheet p2 ay.doc
If anyone needs to refresh their memories on how to plan and carry out the survey, use bat detector, or wishes a map of their square please drop me an e mail.
Also, could anyone who reads this and is already involved in the survey or wishes to become involved in it, please send me an e mail to Secretary: Dundee Bat Group with the word "test" in the message ,using your e mail address you would like me use for all survey communications. I am asking this, as some of your e mails are bouncing back to me as being the wrong address or no longer functioning.
Thank you.
recording sheet p1.doc
Recording sheet p2 ay.doc
If anyone needs to refresh their memories on how to plan and carry out the survey, use bat detector, or wishes a map of their square please drop me an e mail.
Also, could anyone who reads this and is already involved in the survey or wishes to become involved in it, please send me an e mail to Secretary: Dundee Bat Group with the word "test" in the message ,using your e mail address you would like me use for all survey communications. I am asking this, as some of your e mails are bouncing back to me as being the wrong address or no longer functioning.
Thank you.
BBC web site has a story on the Dundee Bat Project. Thank you Anne :)
BBC Story on Dundee Bat Project
BBC Story on Dundee Bat Project
A training night for volunteers for the Dundee Bat Project 2008 was held last night at the Rangers Centre, Camperdown Park -- Many thanks to Kathy Longmuir and the Dundee Ranger Service for use of the venue.
Anne Youngman, Scottish Bat Office, Bat Conservation Trust, gave an excellent presentation on the project, and took the group through the protocol for the survey.
This was followed by practical training on the use of bat detectors and a bat walk. The night was a little bit cool and breezy, but the bats showed up at dusk and all the participants had a chance to use their detectors and hear bat echolocation sounds.
If anyone wants more information on bat survey methods and the use of bat detectors please go to this link on Bat Conservation Trust web site.
Field survey training
Please use the survey methodology given by Anne last night for the Dundee Bat Survey, rather than the method in the online tutorial.
I have had some people contact me who did not receive notification of last nights training. Could you please e mail me Secretary: Dundee Bat Group and give me your current contact details if you wish to be kept informed about the Dundee Bat Project, or if you could not make last nights meeting but would like to volunteer for the project. We can then arrange for training for you.
Keep coming back to this site for details of the project, and dates of further training nights and meetings.
Dundee Bat Group would like to thank Anne Youngman for facilitating last nights meeting, and the time and effort she has put into this survey and helping the group.
If anyone would like an enlarged graphic and google earth photo of their survey areas, please e mail me you grid ( eg. NO 35 32 ) and I will try to mail you it back as a mail attachment that you can print out.
Anne Youngman, Scottish Bat Office, Bat Conservation Trust, gave an excellent presentation on the project, and took the group through the protocol for the survey.
This was followed by practical training on the use of bat detectors and a bat walk. The night was a little bit cool and breezy, but the bats showed up at dusk and all the participants had a chance to use their detectors and hear bat echolocation sounds.
If anyone wants more information on bat survey methods and the use of bat detectors please go to this link on Bat Conservation Trust web site.
Field survey training
Please use the survey methodology given by Anne last night for the Dundee Bat Survey, rather than the method in the online tutorial.
I have had some people contact me who did not receive notification of last nights training. Could you please e mail me Secretary: Dundee Bat Group and give me your current contact details if you wish to be kept informed about the Dundee Bat Project, or if you could not make last nights meeting but would like to volunteer for the project. We can then arrange for training for you.
Keep coming back to this site for details of the project, and dates of further training nights and meetings.
Dundee Bat Group would like to thank Anne Youngman for facilitating last nights meeting, and the time and effort she has put into this survey and helping the group.
If anyone would like an enlarged graphic and google earth photo of their survey areas, please e mail me you grid ( eg. NO 35 32 ) and I will try to mail you it back as a mail attachment that you can print out.
Volunteers wanted for Bat survey in Dundee
Dundee City bat group are looking for local people to take part in a bat
survey. The survey continues from work started in 2007 and aims to
cover the whole city (one kilometer square at a time). If this is
achieved it will make Dundee unique in being the only city in Scotland
(and probably in the UK) to have had such full survey coverage.
Volunteers need no special knowledge or skills but an interest in nature
and confidence about being out as late as 11pm help. Free training will
be given and bat detectors will be loaned out. Anyone interested in
taking part can find out more on the Dundee City Bat Groups website
Dundee-bats.com or can simply turn
up to the training night on Monday 12th May at the Rangers Centre in
Camperdown Park at 7:30pm.
Last years volunteers particularly enjoyed being out of doors, finding
out more about local wildlife and the best thrill of all was hearing
bats on bat detectors.
Data from the survey will be forwarded to the Local records Centre where
it is available to planners, developers and others with an interest in
bats. In the long term the aims of the survey are to identify and
safeguard the city's bat "hotspots" and to improve wildlife habitat in
other areas, to make it more attractive both to people and bats.
Anne Youngman, Scottish Bat Officer for the Bat Conservation Trust said
"Taking part in the survey and gathering information on where bats are
in the city is an important first step in protecting our bats."
David Lampard a volunteer said "It's amazing being out with a detector,
there is nothing to be seen and then the clicks start and you know that
there are bats out there"
Notes for editors
Photographers and/or journalists are welcome to turn up on Monday.
Photographs are attached which show;
1. The preparation of bat packs containing equipment, maps and
survey instructions
2. Volunteers about to start a car survey
3. Volunteers with bat detectors
Bat Facts
* Five species of bat live in the Dundee area, two types of
pipistrelle, Brown longeared bats, Daubenton's and Natterer's bats.
* All bat species resident in the UK are legally protected.
* For more information on bats and on bat surveys see the Bat
Conservation trust website www.bats.org.uk
and click on Help Us Count Bats.
* Last summer 2007 was particularly poor for bats with many young
bats being abandoned by their starving mothers.
ANNE YOUNGMAN
SCOTTISH BAT OFFICER
Bat Car Survey
Bat Survey packs being prepared.
Dundee City bat group are looking for local people to take part in a bat
survey. The survey continues from work started in 2007 and aims to
cover the whole city (one kilometer square at a time). If this is
achieved it will make Dundee unique in being the only city in Scotland
(and probably in the UK) to have had such full survey coverage.
Volunteers need no special knowledge or skills but an interest in nature
and confidence about being out as late as 11pm help. Free training will
be given and bat detectors will be loaned out. Anyone interested in
taking part can find out more on the Dundee City Bat Groups website
Dundee-bats.com or can simply turn
up to the training night on Monday 12th May at the Rangers Centre in
Camperdown Park at 7:30pm.
Last years volunteers particularly enjoyed being out of doors, finding
out more about local wildlife and the best thrill of all was hearing
bats on bat detectors.
Data from the survey will be forwarded to the Local records Centre where
it is available to planners, developers and others with an interest in
bats. In the long term the aims of the survey are to identify and
safeguard the city's bat "hotspots" and to improve wildlife habitat in
other areas, to make it more attractive both to people and bats.
Anne Youngman, Scottish Bat Officer for the Bat Conservation Trust said
"Taking part in the survey and gathering information on where bats are
in the city is an important first step in protecting our bats."
David Lampard a volunteer said "It's amazing being out with a detector,
there is nothing to be seen and then the clicks start and you know that
there are bats out there"
Notes for editors
Photographers and/or journalists are welcome to turn up on Monday.
Photographs are attached which show;
1. The preparation of bat packs containing equipment, maps and
survey instructions
2. Volunteers about to start a car survey
3. Volunteers with bat detectors
Bat Facts
* Five species of bat live in the Dundee area, two types of
pipistrelle, Brown longeared bats, Daubenton's and Natterer's bats.
* All bat species resident in the UK are legally protected.
* For more information on bats and on bat surveys see the Bat
Conservation trust website www.bats.org.uk
and click on Help Us Count Bats.
* Last summer 2007 was particularly poor for bats with many young
bats being abandoned by their starving mothers.
ANNE YOUNGMAN
SCOTTISH BAT OFFICER
Bat Car Survey
Using Bat Detectors to listen for Bats.
Bat Survey packs being prepared.
Come and help us survey bats in Dundee this summer.
The Dundee Bat Project 2008 is to kick-off with a training night to be held on Monday 10 May, at 7.30PM.
The meeting is to held in the Rangers Centre, Camperdown Park. This is in the rear of the large white building at centre of the park.
Anne Youngman, Scottish Bat Officer for bat Conservation Trust will present the talk.
We need as many volunteers as possible this year, to carry on the first class work undertaken last year during the project.
All equipment and training necessary for carrying out surveys of bats in the Dundee area will be provided.
Please come along and help us with this important work. Also, if you know of anyone who would be interested in helping, invite them along to the meeting.
Best wishes,
David de Gernier ( Secretary: Dundee Bat Group )
The Dundee Bat Project 2008 is to kick-off with a training night to be held on Monday 10 May, at 7.30PM.
The meeting is to held in the Rangers Centre, Camperdown Park. This is in the rear of the large white building at centre of the park.
Anne Youngman, Scottish Bat Officer for bat Conservation Trust will present the talk.
We need as many volunteers as possible this year, to carry on the first class work undertaken last year during the project.
All equipment and training necessary for carrying out surveys of bats in the Dundee area will be provided.
Please come along and help us with this important work. Also, if you know of anyone who would be interested in helping, invite them along to the meeting.
Best wishes,
David de Gernier ( Secretary: Dundee Bat Group )
