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This summer, in a major new exhibition, you can see how documenting the animal world has resulted in some of humankind’s most awe-inspiring art, science and sound recordings: Animals: Art, Science and Sound is now open at the British Library Part of the exhibition is dedicated to darkness and Steve got to have a preview of what's on show a couple of days before the exhibition opened. In this interview with Cheryl Tipp, curator of Wildlife and Environmental Sounds, Steve discovers what can be heard in the exhibit as well as what bat recordings lie in the archive. Hear the recordings of horseshoe bats made on one of the first commercially available bat detectors; the Holgate Mk VI and you can see this detector within the exhibition along with photographs of the waveforms it could make from recordings. It sits alongside other important works such as Ernst Haeckel's Kunstformen der Natur (Artforms in nature) with the plate of bats on display. Cheryl also explains how you can submit your bat recordings to the library for adding to the archive. The exhibition is open until Monday 28th Aug 2023. Tickets and all the information you need can be found on the Animals: Art, Science and Sound website. Cheryl Tipp on twitteron page 13 of this journalHolgate recordings of greater horseshoescommon pipistrellesThank you to Wildcare and Wildlife Acoustics for sponsoring the BatChat Podcast in 2022-2023. Quote BATCHAT at the Wildcare checkout for 10% off all bat detectors! Visit wildlifeacoustics.com to learn more. We're running a Listener Survey We’d really appreciate it if you could answer a few quick questions about BatChat so that we can bring you the best possible content for future series. You can leave your answer anonymously if you'd prefer: https://forms.office.com/e/VAvudX7NFr Support the showPlease leave us a review or star rating if your podcast app allows it because it helps us to reach a wider audience so that we can spread the word about how great bats are. How to write a podcast review (and why you should). Got a story to share with us? Please get in touch via comms@bats.org.uk Bats are magical but misunderstood. At BCT our vision is a world rich in wildlife where bats and people thrive together. Action to protect & conserve bats is having a positive impact on bat populations in the UK. We would not be able to continue our work to protect bats & their habitats without your contribution so if you can please donate. We need your support now more than ever: www.bats.org.uk/donate Thank you!

S4E44 - Bonus! The landmark nature documentary series Wild Isles, presented by Sir David Attenborough is currently transmitting on Sunday's at 7pm on BBC One. The fourth episode "Freshwater" features a fabulous bat sequence, recorded in Yorkshire of the phenomenon of autumn swarming. Back in November as the series had entered picture lock, Steve went along to the offices of Silverback films to interview assistant producer Lily Moffatt who worked on the sequence. Lily explains how they captured the shots and what sort of effort goes into capturing such a sequence for a blue chip production. Discover how you can save our Wild Isles and visit the BBC's series website. You can also re-watch the episode on the Freshwater webpage. Get in touch with the show - comms@bats.org.uk - if you have a story to share, are doing a bat project or want to submit a piece of writing or poetry. Thank you to Wildcare and Wildlife Acoustics for sponsoring the BatChat Podcast in 2022-2023. Quote BATCHAT at the Wildcare checkout for 10% off all bat detectors! Visit wildlifeacoustics.com to learn more. We're running a Listener Survey We’d really appreciate it if you could answer a few quick questions about BatChat so that we can bring you the best possible content for future series. You can leave your answer anonymously if you'd prefer: https://forms.office.com/e/VAvudX7NFr Support the showPlease leave us a review or star rating if your podcast app allows it because it helps us to reach a wider audience so that we can spread the word about how great bats are. How to write a podcast review (and why you should). Got a story to share with us? Please get in touch via comms@bats.org.uk Bats are magical but misunderstood. At BCT our vision is a world rich in wildlife where bats and people thrive together. Action to protect & conserve bats is having a positive impact on bat populations in the UK. We would not be able to continue our work to protect bats & their habitats without your contribution so if you can please donate. We need your support now more than ever: www.bats.org.uk/donate Thank you!

S4E43 As series four comes to a close, Steve sits down with a titan of bat conservation. Dr Robert (Bob) Stebbings is one of the original bat workers in the UK and in this episode we hear about some of the major bat conservation work undertaken by Bob over the last half century. Make sure you follow the show so you get notified of our two bonus episodes which will go out before the next series. The first of those will be an interview with the team who made Wild Isles and you can watch the trailer for this upcoming landmark nature documentary here. Night Winged was written by Helen Ball and you can find her on twitter and Instagram. Get in touch with the show - comms@bats.org.uk - if you have a story to share, are doing a bat project or want to submit a piece of writing or poetry. Thank you to Wildcare and Wildlife Acoustics for sponsoring the BatChat Podcast in 2022-2023. Quote BATCHAT at the Wildcare checkout for 10% off all bat detectors! Visit wildlifeacoustics.com to learn more. We're running a Listener Survey We’d really appreciate it if you could answer a few quick questions about BatChat so that we can bring you the best possible content for future series. You can leave your answer anonymously if you'd prefer: https://forms.office.com/e/VAvudX7NFr Support the showPlease leave us a review or star rating if your podcast app allows it because it helps us to reach a wider audience so that we can spread the word about how great bats are. How to write a podcast review (and why you should). Got a story to share with us? Please get in touch via comms@bats.org.uk Bats are magical but misunderstood. At BCT our vision is a world rich in wildlife where bats and people thrive together. Action to protect & conserve bats is having a positive impact on bat populations in the UK. We would not be able to continue our work to protect bats & their habitats without your contribution so if you can please donate. We need your support now more than ever: www.bats.org.uk/donate Thank you!

S4E42 This week Steve joins Chris Damant in the grounds of Cliveden House on the banks of the River Thames. As fine dining takes place in the hotel above them, Chris and his team have set up traps to catch bats as they arrive to mate in the middle of the night. Underneath the south terrace are a number of rooms which mimic underground structures and its these that the bats travel to from far and wide to undertake an annual phenomenon, autumn swarming. Cliveden hosts one of the most important bat sites in the country, with eight species swarming here between August and October. Read more about the work Chris has undertaken at ClivedentwitterinstagramROOST websiteScottishSouth-WestLeave us a voicemail! Record your voice message here. Join the conversation with the hashtag #BatChat Thank you to Wildcare and Wildlife Acoustics for sponsoring the BatChat Podcast in 2022-2023. Quote BATCHAT at the Wildcare checkout for 10% off all bat detectors! Visit wildlifeacoustics.com to learn more. We're running a Listener Survey We’d really appreciate it if you could answer a few quick questions about BatChat so that we can bring you the best possible content for future series. You can leave your answer anonymously if you'd prefer: https://forms.office.com/e/VAvudX7NFr Support the showPlease leave us a review or star rating if your podcast app allows it because it helps us to reach a wider audience so that we can spread the word about how great bats are. How to write a podcast review (and why you should). Got a story to share with us? Please get in touch via comms@bats.org.uk Bats are magical but misunderstood. At BCT our vision is a world rich in wildlife where bats and people thrive together. Action to protect & conserve bats is having a positive impact on bat populations in the UK. We would not be able to continue our work to protect bats & their habitats without your contribution so if you can please donate. We need your support now more than ever: www.bats.org.uk/donate Thank you!

S4E41 Tony Hutson has been shouting about bats since the 1960's and has changed the bat conservation landscape in that time. He was a founding member of the bat groups of Britain, the precursor to the Bat Conservation Trust. His survey work on the lonely greater mouse-eared bat inspired a play and he's been on expedition to a remote cave with astronaut Neil Armstrong. Steve sits down with Tony in this episode to find out more about Tony's work. Read our news storywebsitetwitterinstagramLeave us a voicemail! Record your voice message here. Join the conversation with the hashtag #BatChat Thank you to Wildcare and Wildlife Acoustics for sponsoring the BatChat Podcast in 2022-2023. Quote BATCHAT at the Wildcare checkout for 10% off all bat detectors! Visit wildlifeacoustics.com to learn more. We're running a Listener Survey We’d really appreciate it if you could answer a few quick questions about BatChat so that we can bring you the best possible content for future series. You can leave your answer anonymously if you'd prefer: https://forms.office.com/e/VAvudX7NFr Support the showPlease leave us a review or star rating if your podcast app allows it because it helps us to reach a wider audience so that we can spread the word about how great bats are. How to write a podcast review (and why you should). Got a story to share with us? Please get in touch via comms@bats.org.uk Bats are magical but misunderstood. At BCT our vision is a world rich in wildlife where bats and people thrive together. Action to protect & conserve bats is having a positive impact on bat populations in the UK. We would not be able to continue our work to protect bats & their habitats without your contribution so if you can please donate. We need your support now more than ever: www.bats.org.uk/donate Thank you!

S4E40 In this interview recorded right at the end of August 2022, Steve is sat in a Norfolk woodland with Dr Charlotte Packman. We learn what potential impacts a new road in the area might have on the local bat populations and as Lotty explains it could have a significant impact on a nationally significant barbastelle bat population. Lotty works for the Norfolk Wildlife Trust (NWT) as their Conservation Scientist and the research discussed in this episode has been a collaboration between NWT, Wild Wings Ecology and the University of East Anglia. Lotty starts us off by introducing herself and describing where we are. Read the latest on the NDR from the Norfolk Wildlife Trust. Read other news on the NDR from the Norfolk Wildlife Trust. Our own position statement on the NDR is here. The Change.org petition can be found here. Listen to that other episode mentioned with Jane Harris at the incredible Paston Great Barn site. Since recording this episode the Norfolk Wildlife Trust have submitted a proposal to Natural England to consider the Wensum Woodlands for SSSI status. You can find that application listed here. Send a voice message to BatChat! We want you to get in touch with your favourite bat experience. It doesn’t matter whether it was the first time you’ve ever seen a bat, you might have seen a brief shadow flying past as you were leaving your house, perhaps you’ve been checking bat boxes with yo Thank you to Wildcare and Wildlife Acoustics for sponsoring the BatChat Podcast in 2022-2023. Quote BATCHAT at the Wildcare checkout for 10% off all bat detectors! Visit wildlifeacoustics.com to learn more. We're running a Listener Survey We’d really appreciate it if you could answer a few quick questions about BatChat so that we can bring you the best possible content for future series. You can leave your answer anonymously if you'd prefer: https://forms.office.com/e/VAvudX7NFr Support the showPlease leave us a review or star rating if your podcast app allows it because it helps us to reach a wider audience so that we can spread the word about how great bats are. How to write a podcast review (and why you should). Got a story to share with us? Please get in touch via comms@bats.org.uk Bats are magical but misunderstood. At BCT our vision is a world rich in wildlife where bats and people thrive together. Action to protect & conserve bats is having a positive impact on bat populations in the UK. We would not be able to continue our work to protect bats & their habitats without your contribution so if you can please donate. We need your support now more than ever: www.bats.org.uk/donate Thank you!

S4E39 Rodrigo Medellín is Mexico's very own 'Bat Man'. Since he first kept vampire bats in his bathroom as a child, Rodrigo has dedicated his life to saving them. On the evening of the 2022 UK National Bat Conference, Steve sits down with Rodrigo and asks him what it felt like to succeed in taking the lesser long nosed bat off the endangered species list and what it felt like to watch the bat volcano of Calakmul for the first time. National Geographic Explorer at Large Rodrigo Medellín Rodrigo's twitter and Instagram Bat friendly tequila brands Thank you to Wildcare and Wildlife Acoustics for sponsoring the BatChat Podcast in 2022-2023. Quote BATCHAT at the Wildcare checkout for 10% off all bat detectors! Visit wildlifeacoustics.com to learn more. We're running a Listener Survey We’d really appreciate it if you could answer a few quick questions about BatChat so that we can bring you the best possible content for future series. You can leave your answer anonymously if you'd prefer: https://forms.office.com/e/VAvudX7NFr Support the showPlease leave us a review or star rating if your podcast app allows it because it helps us to reach a wider audience so that we can spread the word about how great bats are. How to write a podcast review (and why you should). Got a story to share with us? Please get in touch via comms@bats.org.uk Bats are magical but misunderstood. At BCT our vision is a world rich in wildlife where bats and people thrive together. Action to protect & conserve bats is having a positive impact on bat populations in the UK. We would not be able to continue our work to protect bats & their habitats without your contribution so if you can please donate. We need your support now more than ever: www.bats.org.uk/donate Thank you!

S4E38 We return to London's Natural History Museum. This time however, we're in the bowels of the Diptera collection with flygirl herself, Dr Erica McAlister. If you think you recognise that name it's because Erica has graced the airwaves several times before including BBC Radio 4's The Infinite Monkey Cage and The Life Scientific. As you'll hear in this episode, Erica needs help from those of us who regularly handle bats. If you're a bat carer or a bat worker who undertakes bat box checks or trapping surveys, please start collecting all bat ectoparasites from bats and place them into vials of 100% ethanol. Make detailed notes about the species of bat they came from, the sex of the bat, located of ectoparasite & what the bat was doing at the time. A location & the habitat is also a must. As much info as possible! You can then post your specimens to: Dr Erica McAlister, Senior Curator; Diptera, Life Sciences (Insects Division), The Natural History Museum, Cromwell Road, London SW7 5BD. Your specimens will be added to the collection and your name will eventually appear in the digital collections. Bat and bird fly recording scheme website See Piotr Naskrecki's bat fly image here A short video of Erica talking about bat flies along with more photos here Ethanol can be Thank you to Wildcare and Wildlife Acoustics for sponsoring the BatChat Podcast in 2022-2023. Quote BATCHAT at the Wildcare checkout for 10% off all bat detectors! Visit wildlifeacoustics.com to learn more. We're running a Listener Survey We’d really appreciate it if you could answer a few quick questions about BatChat so that we can bring you the best possible content for future series. You can leave your answer anonymously if you'd prefer: https://forms.office.com/e/VAvudX7NFr Wildlife Acoustics Wildcare Support the showPlease leave us a review or star rating if your podcast app allows it because it helps us to reach a wider audience so that we can spread the word about how great bats are. How to write a podcast review (and why you should). Got a story to share with us? Please get in touch via comms@bats.org.uk Bats are magical but misunderstood. At BCT our vision is a world rich in wildlife where bats and people thrive together. Action to protect & conserve bats is having a positive impact on bat populations in the UK. We would not be able to continue our work to protect bats & their habitats without your contribution so if you can please donate. We need your support now more than ever: www.bats.org.uk/donate Thank you!

S4E37 Haddon Hall, the private residence of Lord and Lady Edward Manners, is set in the Peak District in the valley of the River Wye. With nine hundred years of history, it is one of the oldest houses in the country and moreover one of the only houses in England to have remained in one family’s ownership for its entire existence. In the corner of the Hall, a large soprano pipistrelle bat roost resides within the roof of the Chapel. Steve chats with Lord Edward about rewilding of the estate, his conservation work in Africa and the fact that he has to clear bat droppings from his desk each morning! Find out more about wilding of the Medieval Parkland as well as it's ecology Watch a video of the roost on the Derbyshire Bat Group YouTube page Advice about bats in historic buildings from Historic England, the bats in churches project and from this collaborative guide. Send a voice message to BatChat! We want you to get in touch with your favourite bat experience. It doesn’t matter whether it was the first time you’ve ever seen a bat, you might have seen a brief shadow flying past as you were leaving your house, perhaps you’ve been checking bat boxes with your local bat group and saw bats up close for the first time or saw a bat species you've never s Thank you to Wildcare and Wildlife Acoustics for sponsoring the BatChat Podcast in 2022-2023. Quote BATCHAT at the Wildcare checkout for 10% off all bat detectors! Visit wildlifeacoustics.com to learn more. We're running a Listener Survey We’d really appreciate it if you could answer a few quick questions about BatChat so that we can bring you the best possible content for future series. You can leave your answer anonymously if you'd prefer: https://forms.office.com/e/VAvudX7NFr Wildcare Wildlife Acoustics Disclaimer: This post contains affiliate links. If you make a purchase, I may receive a commission at no extra cost to you. Support the showPlease leave us a review or star rating if your podcast app allows it because it helps us to reach a wider audience so that we can spread the word about how great bats are. How to write a podcast review (and why you should). Got a story to share with us? Please get in touch via comms@bats.org.uk Bats are magical but misunderstood. At BCT our vision is a world rich in wildlife where bats and people thrive together. Action to protect & conserve bats is having a positive impact on bat populations in the UK. We would not be able to continue our work to protect bats & their habitats without your contribution so if you can please donate. We need your support now more than ever: www.bats.org.uk/donate Thank you!

S4E36 You join us in a secret location this week. Back in 2019, Scotty Dodd from the Sussex Bat Group made the most significant discovery in the history of the bat group...the first maternity roost of greater horseshoe bats in Sussex for one hundred years. Truly the find of the century! In a small dry valley surrounded by beech trees, Scotty & Steve are sat in front of the run-down stable block as Scotty describes to Steve how he came across the roost and got the verification he was looking for. As you'll hear in this episode, the team need a lot of money to save this roost and improve it so that the colony has every chance of survival. So if you can, donate to the JustGiving appeal here See the roost on the VWT website See what else the Sussex Bat Group get up to and follow them on twitter Send a voice message to BatChat! We want you to get in touch with your favourite bat experience. It doesn’t matter whether it was the first time you’ve ever seen a bat, you might have seen a brief shadow flying past as you were leaving your house, perhaps you’ve been checking bat boxes with your local bat group and saw bats up close for the first time or saw a bat species you've never seen before, perhaps you’ve counted a bat roost this summer and something unusual happened, maybe you heard what bats sound like on a detector and thought it was the coolest thing ever! Whether you’re new to bats or a seasoned bat lover, we want to hear all about your favourite bat experience from this year. Thank you to Wildcare and Wildlife Acoustics for sponsoring the BatChat Podcast in 2022-2023. Quote BATCHAT at the Wildcare checkout for 10% off all bat detectors! Visit wildlifeacoustics.com to learn more. We're running a Listener Survey We’d really appreciate it if you could answer a few quick questions about BatChat so that we can bring you the best possible content for future series. You can leave your answer anonymously if you'd prefer: https://forms.office.com/e/VAvudX7NFr Wildlife Acoustics Wildcare Support the showPlease leave us a review or star rating if your podcast app allows it because it helps us to reach a wider audience so that we can spread the word about how great bats are. How to write a podcast review (and why you should). Got a story to share with us? Please get in touch via comms@bats.org.uk Bats are magical but misunderstood. At BCT our vision is a world rich in wildlife where bats and people thrive together. Action to protect & conserve bats is having a positive impact on bat populations in the UK. We would not be able to continue our work to protect bats & their habitats without your contribution so if you can please donate. We need your support now more than ever: www.bats.org.uk/donate Thank you!

S4E35 We're back with a brand new series! This week Steve joins a volunteer roost visitor, Chris Smith from Staffordshire Bat Group, on a roost visit requested by the Bat Conservation Trust. Chris discusses the value of the free service, how he got into volunteering for the visits and why he thinks it provides such a great positive outcome for bats (most of the time!). Hear how Chris undertakes the survey and provides advice to the roost owners afterwards. Want to know more about bats living in your house or how to tell if you have a bat roost? BCT have lots of info here. Interested in becoming a Volunteer Roost Visitor? Send a voice message to BatChat! We want you to get in touch with your favourite bat experience. It doesn’t matter whether it was the first time you’ve ever seen a bat, you might have seen a brief shadow flying past as you were leaving your house, perhaps you’ve been checking bat boxes with your local bat group and saw bats up close for the first time or saw a bat species you've never seen before, perhaps you’ve counted a bat roost this summer and something unusual happened, maybe you heard what bats sound like on a detector and thought it was the coolest thing ever! Whether you’re new to bats or a seasoned bat lover, we want to hear all about your favourite bat experience from this year. Record your voice message here. Don't worry, you can hear it back and re-record it if you don't like it. Join the conversation on social media using #BatChat Producer: Steve Roe @SteveRoeBatMan Thank you to Wildcare and Wildlife Acoustics for sponsoring the BatChat Podcast in 2022-2023. Quote BATCHAT at the Wildcare checkout for 10% off all bat detectors! Visit wildlifeacoustics.com to learn more. We're running a Listener Survey We’d really appreciate it if you could answer a few quick questions about BatChat so that we can bring you the best possible content for future series. You can leave your answer anonymously if you'd prefer: https://forms.office.com/e/VAvudX7NFr Wildcare Wildlife Acoustics Support the showPlease leave us a review or star rating if your podcast app allows it because it helps us to reach a wider audience so that we can spread the word about how great bats are. How to write a podcast review (and why you should). Got a story to share with us? Please get in touch via comms@bats.org.uk Bats are magical but misunderstood. At BCT our vision is a world rich in wildlife where bats and people thrive together. Action to protect & conserve bats is having a positive impact on bat populations in the UK. We would not be able to continue our work to protect bats & their habitats without your contribution so if you can please donate. We need your support now more than ever: www.bats.org.uk/donate Thank you!

BatChat is returning on 9th November 2022 with series 4 and we want to hear from you! Yes that's right; you guys, your voices, on this show. We want you to get in touch with your favourite bat experience. Maybe you discovered bats living in your house, you went on a bat walk for the first time or you saw bats somewhere you weren't expecting. Whether you’re new to bats or a seasoned bat lover, we want to hear all about your favourite bat experience. So how do you leave this message? Well you can leave us a voicemail and we’ll play your recording here on BatChat! https://www.speakpipe.com/batchat Don’t worry; you can listen to your message before sending it to us and re-record it if you don’t like it! Remember to say your name if you'd like to be credited. Wildcare Wildlife Acoustics Support the showPlease leave us a review or star rating if your podcast app allows it because it helps us to reach a wider audience so that we can spread the word about how great bats are. How to write a podcast review (and why you should). Got a story to share with us? Please get in touch via comms@bats.org.uk Bats are magical but misunderstood. At BCT our vision is a world rich in wildlife where bats and people thrive together. Action to protect & conserve bats is having a positive impact on bat populations in the UK. We would not be able to continue our work to protect bats & their habitats without your contribution so if you can please donate. We need your support now more than ever: www.bats.org.uk/donate Thank you!

S3E34 Hidden amongst the boughs of an Oak tree, Steve & his guests look down over the Knepp Castle Rewilding Estate; former farmland which has been allowed to return to nature by the owners Isabella Tree & Charlie Burrell. In this episode, as the sun sets the light turns golden. Below us red deer begin to bellow at the start of the rutting season, a green woodpecker calls out from amongst the tussocky grassland and bats begin to flit about the Oak canopy they're stood in. Our guests in this final episode of season 3 are Ryan Greaves and Stephanie Murphy. Ryan tells us more about the Estate and Steph explains how bat surveys have evolved over the years. RyanStephtwitterInstagramgreater horseshoestheir podcasthistory of the Knepp Rewilding project herebestselling book Wilding by Isabella TreeSeason 4 Recording for series 4 is already underway and will be coming later in the year. We're looking for participants to share bat stores from across the UK with the podcast so if you're working on a great bat project or have a story about the bats in your area to share please drop us an email to comms@bats.org.uk Our Social Media Join the conversation on social media using #BatChat: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/BatConservationTrus Thank you to Wildcare and Wildlife Acoustics for sponsoring the BatChat Podcast in 2022-2023. Quote BATCHAT at the Wildcare checkout for 10% off all bat detectors! Visit wildlifeacoustics.com to learn more. We're running a Listener Survey We’d really appreciate it if you could answer a few quick questions about BatChat so that we can bring you the best possible content for future series. You can leave your answer anonymously if you'd prefer: https://forms.office.com/e/VAvudX7NFr Support the showPlease leave us a review or star rating if your podcast app allows it because it helps us to reach a wider audience so that we can spread the word about how great bats are. How to write a podcast review (and why you should). Got a story to share with us? Please get in touch via comms@bats.org.uk Bats are magical but misunderstood. At BCT our vision is a world rich in wildlife where bats and people thrive together. Action to protect & conserve bats is having a positive impact on bat populations in the UK. We would not be able to continue our work to protect bats & their habitats without your contribution so if you can please donate. We need your support now more than ever: www.bats.org.uk/donate Thank you!

S3E33 Discover the amazing work taking place in the dead of night each year by hoards of volunteers. This episode starts with Steve joining a team of these volunteers who are counting out a brown long-eared bat roost in the Derbyshire Dales at dusk as a nearby rookery gathers. We then sit down in Battersea Park, London with Philip Briggs, monitoring manager for the Bat Conservation Trust who collates all of this data sent in by volunteers and turns it into invaluable trends to establish how our bats are faring year on year in the UK. The National Bat Monitoring Programme is one of the longest running citizen science projects in the world and YOU, yes YOU can take part! There are surveys which need no prior experience. Get involved with the NBMP yourself heresummary mapsWatch footage of the brown long-eared roostthe latest NBMP reportInstructions of how to leave your review in each of these places can be found here.Join the conversation on social media using #BatChat: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/BatConservationTrust Twitter: https://twitter.com/_BCT_ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/batconservationtrust For more bat news, head to o Thank you to Wildcare and Wildlife Acoustics for sponsoring the BatChat Podcast in 2022-2023. Quote BATCHAT at the Wildcare checkout for 10% off all bat detectors! Visit wildlifeacoustics.com to learn more. We're running a Listener Survey We’d really appreciate it if you could answer a few quick questions about BatChat so that we can bring you the best possible content for future series. You can leave your answer anonymously if you'd prefer: https://forms.office.com/e/VAvudX7NFr Support the showPlease leave us a review or star rating if your podcast app allows it because it helps us to reach a wider audience so that we can spread the word about how great bats are. How to write a podcast review (and why you should). Got a story to share with us? Please get in touch via comms@bats.org.uk Bats are magical but misunderstood. At BCT our vision is a world rich in wildlife where bats and people thrive together. Action to protect & conserve bats is having a positive impact on bat populations in the UK. We would not be able to continue our work to protect bats & their habitats without your contribution so if you can please donate. We need your support now more than ever: www.bats.org.uk/donate Thank you!

S3E32 Join Steve on the Welcombe Hills overlooking Stratford-upon-Avon as he sits down with the author of Bobby the brown long-eared bat, a children's book which follows the adventure of a baby brown long-eared bat who lives in the attic of a farmyard. Sitting in the autumn sunshine on a wooden bench watching the world go by, Angela reveals to Steve where the inspiration for Bobby came from, how she got into the world of bats, the challenges of publishing as well as revealing what's next in store for Bobby! twitterInstagramhis own website!her online shoporder from hereuk.bookshop.orgJoin the conversation on social media using #BatChat: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/BatConservationTrust Twitter: https://twitter.com/_BCT_ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/batconservationtrust For more bat news, head to our website https://www.bats.org.uk/ Producer: Steve Roe @SteveRoeBatMan Cover Art: Rachel Hudson http://rachelhudsonillustration.com/ Thank you to Wildcare and Wildlife Acoustics for sponsoring the BatChat Podcast in 2022-2023. Quote BATCHAT at the Wildcare checkout for 10% off all bat detectors! Visit wildlifeacoustics.com to learn more. We're running a Listener Survey We’d really appreciate it if you could answer a few quick questions about BatChat so that we can bring you the best possible content for future series. You can leave your answer anonymously if you'd prefer: https://forms.office.com/e/VAvudX7NFr Support the showPlease leave us a review or star rating if your podcast app allows it because it helps us to reach a wider audience so that we can spread the word about how great bats are. How to write a podcast review (and why you should). Got a story to share with us? Please get in touch via comms@bats.org.uk Bats are magical but misunderstood. At BCT our vision is a world rich in wildlife where bats and people thrive together. Action to protect & conserve bats is having a positive impact on bat populations in the UK. We would not be able to continue our work to protect bats & their habitats without your contribution so if you can please donate. We need your support now more than ever: www.bats.org.uk/donate Thank you!

S3E31 This week Steve is on the Tortworth Estate in south Gloucestershire with Jim Mullholland. They're joined by a voluntary team of arborists who are assisting Jim with his 5 year project to create natural tree features for Bechstein's and barbastelle bats. By using chainsaws to create different crevices and cavities within living trees, the team hope that they will be taken up by colonies of the two bat species which are present in the woodland Steve is visiting today in this episode. The episode starts on a sunny spring day in an ancient woodland with chiffchaff singing in the canopy overhead. As the episode moves down to where the team are working for the day there's more background noise than you're used to on BatChat because the woodland is right next to the M5 motorway. twitterInstagramYouTube channel with a number of videosFind out more hereJimVicky Bengtssonveteranisation techniques is at this link Join the conversation on social media using #BatChat: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/BatConservationTrust Twitter: https://twitter.com/_BCT_ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/batconservationtrust For more bat news, head to our website Thank you to Wildcare and Wildlife Acoustics for sponsoring the BatChat Podcast in 2022-2023. Quote BATCHAT at the Wildcare checkout for 10% off all bat detectors! Visit wildlifeacoustics.com to learn more. We're running a Listener Survey We’d really appreciate it if you could answer a few quick questions about BatChat so that we can bring you the best possible content for future series. You can leave your answer anonymously if you'd prefer: https://forms.office.com/e/VAvudX7NFr Support the showPlease leave us a review or star rating if your podcast app allows it because it helps us to reach a wider audience so that we can spread the word about how great bats are. How to write a podcast review (and why you should). Got a story to share with us? Please get in touch via comms@bats.org.uk Bats are magical but misunderstood. At BCT our vision is a world rich in wildlife where bats and people thrive together. Action to protect & conserve bats is having a positive impact on bat populations in the UK. We would not be able to continue our work to protect bats & their habitats without your contribution so if you can please donate. We need your support now more than ever: www.bats.org.uk/donate Thank you!

S3E30 This week Steve is in Surrey at RHS Garden Wisley with Principal Entomologist Dr Andrew Salisbury. Andrew sits down with Steve in the brand new wildlife garden outside their new laboratory building to tell us about the work the RHS do and how we can improve our gardens for wildlife including bats. This week we also have a piece of nature writing by James Gilbert. James creates 'thumbnail' pieces and tweets them out and he's created a longer piece especially for BatChat called "Made with Echoes". RHS Garden WisleytwitterInstagramPlants for PollinatorsAndrew SalisburyInstagramRHS profile is herecan be found on our websiteJames GilberttwitterInstagramIf you have a piece of nature writing or poetry about bats that you'd like to share with us, drop us an email to comms@bats.org.uk and your piece may end up on the show! Join the conversation on social media using #BatChat: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/BatConservationTrust Twitter: https://twitter.com/_BCT_ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/batconservationtrus Thank you to Wildcare and Wildlife Acoustics for sponsoring the BatChat Podcast in 2022-2023. Quote BATCHAT at the Wildcare checkout for 10% off all bat detectors! Visit wildlifeacoustics.com to learn more. We're running a Listener Survey We’d really appreciate it if you could answer a few quick questions about BatChat so that we can bring you the best possible content for future series. You can leave your answer anonymously if you'd prefer: https://forms.office.com/e/VAvudX7NFr Support the showPlease leave us a review or star rating if your podcast app allows it because it helps us to reach a wider audience so that we can spread the word about how great bats are. How to write a podcast review (and why you should). Got a story to share with us? Please get in touch via comms@bats.org.uk Bats are magical but misunderstood. At BCT our vision is a world rich in wildlife where bats and people thrive together. Action to protect & conserve bats is having a positive impact on bat populations in the UK. We would not be able to continue our work to protect bats & their habitats without your contribution so if you can please donate. We need your support now more than ever: www.bats.org.uk/donate Thank you!

S3E29 This week Steve joins Martyn Cooke outside a holiday cottage in Staffordshire as they set up a matrix of bat detectors to record the sound of Brandt's bats emerging from their roost before flying into the adjacent woodland. Martyn explains why he is recording the calls, why he's travelled all the way from Surrey to record these bats and what the calls will be used for. Steve finds out how an injured serotine bat got Martyn hooked on bats and they talk about the advances in automatic bat call identification. If you're interested in finding out more about bat detectors, your local bat group are likely to be able to lend you a detector and you can learn more about them on our website here. Listen to our earlier episode from series one about Brandt's in the Churnet valley here. Martyn on twitterBorrow detectors from usBat Detector InfoAudioMoth detectors on twitterPlease leave us a review if you can, it helps us to reach a wider audience so that we can spread the word about how great bats are. Join the conversation on social media using #BatChat Producer: Steve Roe @SteveRoeBatMan Thank you to Wildcare and Wildlife Acoustics for sponsoring the BatChat Podcast in 2022-2023. Quote BATCHAT at the Wildcare checkout for 10% off all bat detectors! Visit wildlifeacoustics.com to learn more. We're running a Listener Survey We’d really appreciate it if you could answer a few quick questions about BatChat so that we can bring you the best possible content for future series. You can leave your answer anonymously if you'd prefer: https://forms.office.com/e/VAvudX7NFr Support the showPlease leave us a review or star rating if your podcast app allows it because it helps us to reach a wider audience so that we can spread the word about how great bats are. How to write a podcast review (and why you should). Got a story to share with us? Please get in touch via comms@bats.org.uk Bats are magical but misunderstood. At BCT our vision is a world rich in wildlife where bats and people thrive together. Action to protect & conserve bats is having a positive impact on bat populations in the UK. We would not be able to continue our work to protect bats & their habitats without your contribution so if you can please donate. We need your support now more than ever: www.bats.org.uk/donate Thank you!

S3E28 This week Steve is joined in a Derbyshire churchyard by Jon Russ who is an expert on bat echolocation calls. They discuss how Jon got into studying bat calls, his latest book on the subject and his passion for Nathusius’ pipistrelle bats. Jon's latest book "Bat Calls of Britain and Europe" is available from Pelagic Publishing and is aimed at anyone interested in bat echolocation. It contains introductory chapters to the subject as well as more advanced topics such as sound analysis. As Jon says in this episode if you want to get into learning about bat calls the best place to start is to get hold of a bat detector. Your local bat group are likely to be able to lend you a detector and you can learn more about them on our website here. Jon's other passion is Nathusius' pipistrelles and he runs the website dedicated to this species containing distribution maps, identification tips and other information about their ecology. Listen to our earlier episode about Nathusius' pipistrelles with Dan Hargreaves here. Bat Calls of Britain and EuropeBat Detector InfoNathusius' pipistrelle websitePlease leave us a review if you can, it helps us to reach a wider audience so that we can spread the word about how great bats are. Join the conversation on social media using #BatChat Producer: Steve Roe @SteveRoeBatMan Thank you to Wildcare and Wildlife Acoustics for sponsoring the BatChat Podcast in 2022-2023. Quote BATCHAT at the Wildcare checkout for 10% off all bat detectors! Visit wildlifeacoustics.com to learn more. We're running a Listener Survey We’d really appreciate it if you could answer a few quick questions about BatChat so that we can bring you the best possible content for future series. You can leave your answer anonymously if you'd prefer: https://forms.office.com/e/VAvudX7NFr Support the showPlease leave us a review or star rating if your podcast app allows it because it helps us to reach a wider audience so that we can spread the word about how great bats are. How to write a podcast review (and why you should). Got a story to share with us? Please get in touch via comms@bats.org.uk Bats are magical but misunderstood. At BCT our vision is a world rich in wildlife where bats and people thrive together. Action to protect & conserve bats is having a positive impact on bat populations in the UK. We would not be able to continue our work to protect bats & their habitats without your contribution so if you can please donate. We need your support now more than ever: www.bats.org.uk/donate Thank you!

S3E27 This week Steve is in the Lake District National Park with Ecologist and Chair of south Cumbria Bat Group Rich Flight. Rich published the findings of a study called "Bats with Altitude" in the journal British Island Bats in 2021 and he sits down with Steve to tell us about what inspired the project, what bats were found at over 500m on the mountainsides and how volunteers surveyed for bats in challenging upland conditions. Bats with AltitudeRich's InstagramRich's twitterSouth Cumbria Bat GroupCumberland Bat Group Join the conversation on social media using #BatChat: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/BatConservationTrust Twitter: https://twitter.com/_BCT_ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/batconservationtrust For more bat news, head to our website https://www.bats.org.uk/ Producer: Steve Roe @SteveRoeBatMan Cover Art: Rachel Hudson http://rachelhudsonillustration.com/ Thank you to Wildcare and Wildlife Acoustics for sponsoring the BatChat Podcast in 2022-2023. Quote BATCHAT at the Wildcare checkout for 10% off all bat detectors! Visit wildlifeacoustics.com to learn more. We're running a Listener Survey We’d really appreciate it if you could answer a few quick questions about BatChat so that we can bring you the best possible content for future series. You can leave your answer anonymously if you'd prefer: https://forms.office.com/e/VAvudX7NFr Support the showPlease leave us a review or star rating if your podcast app allows it because it helps us to reach a wider audience so that we can spread the word about how great bats are. How to write a podcast review (and why you should). Got a story to share with us? Please get in touch via comms@bats.org.uk Bats are magical but misunderstood. At BCT our vision is a world rich in wildlife where bats and people thrive together. Action to protect & conserve bats is having a positive impact on bat populations in the UK. We would not be able to continue our work to protect bats & their habitats without your contribution so if you can please donate. We need your support now more than ever: www.bats.org.uk/donate Thank you!