Collin Park Wood Bat Box Checks

17/07/11

Gloucestershire Bat Group :)

Found a whole nursery of Natterers Bats
A very rare Brandts!!
And a soprano Pip, which thanks to Will Ponting I will forever associate with Britvit 55

Got to handle a Natterers bat which was amazing





17/7/11 BCT National Bat Monitoring Programme, Survey Site: Walford, Ross on Wye

Badger
Tawny Owl
Lots of Common Toads
Serotine
Noctule
Common Pipistrelle


22/7/11 BCT National Bat Monitoring Programme, Survey Site: Walford, Ross on Wye

Tawny Owl (metres away!)
Soprano Pipistrelle
Common pip
Noctule
Serotine

Daneway Banks 26/06/11

I visited the three reserves in the are: Daneway Banks, Siccarage Wood and Sapperton Valley.

1 Female Fallow Deer
Dark Green Frittillary
Marbled White Butterfly
Small TortoiseShell
Ringlet
Meadow Brown
Small Copper Butterfly
Blue butterfly species unknown
Small Skipper
Pyramid Orchid
Perfumed Orchid



Also visited Highnam Woods RSPB reserve earlier last month

1 dead Bank Vole :(
Wood White
Orange Tip
Common Blue
Meadow Brown
Ringlet
Comma
Speckled Wood
Red Admiral
Painted Lady
Peacock Butterfly

We also went to Cheddar Gorge the weekend  2/3 July and saw the most spectacular show of a Peregrine Falcon high in the sky above us :)