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Another very interesting Video on UK bats. My first close up of a bat? I was trying out a detector when a bat took an insect on the honeysuckle next to me.It just sat there looking at me then flew.
Thanks so much for this and the previous video - enjoyed them both and learnt a lot. Sadly, my only close up of a bat was an individual (I think a Pipistrelle of some stripe, presumably a Common Pipistrelle) which we found on a wall in my parents' garden (they had perhaps 4 or 5 of them that used to swoop and swerve around the garden at dusk). In our ignorance, we left it alone as we didn't want to disturb it and found it dead the next day but I now know that we should have tried to get it into a shoe box and called the vets so in the unlikely event that I'm ever in that position again I won't repeat the mistake. I did, however, have an amazing experience on the balcony of a flat in southern Spain which had a large bat colony near the town. We would sit on the balcony (which was covered by a roof that was the floor of the balcony above) at night and a line of bats would fly in, inside the balcony perhaps 4 feet above us and just below the roof, presumably to hoover up the insects attracted by our lights, before coming back again for more. It was magical!
I'm glad you enjoyed the videos and were able to learn from them! It's unfortunate to hear about your encounter with the pipistrelle, nature can be harsh at times. It must have been interesting getting to see it close up on the wall, but definitely doesn't sound like normal behaviour and even if you did get it to a vet who knows whether it would have survived the stress of transport. It's definitely the time of year that bats start coming out in large numbers (I have a more recent video where I filmed the first pipistrelle emergences I saw this year), so I'd keep an eye on the sky at dusk! Your experience in Spain sounds amazing, I can think of similar experiences in Portugal. Warmer climates can support much larger bats too. I've always wanted to head abroad and see some of the large fruit bat species in the wild, but haven't had the chance yet.
One evening about 7 years ago,my son was in the bathroom and started shouting "Bat bat bat bat bat".He came out and I went in but couldn't see anything.My son began to think he had imagined it.About 5 days later,I was in the bathroom and heard a noise down to my left.A tiny baby bat was crawling up the water inlet pipe from under the floorboards.The pipe was slippery and the bat kept slipping back down then crawling back up.I put my hand near and it immediately wrapped itself around my thumb.It was clearly a juvenile as it was only about 3cm max long.I had a good look at it and it had a good look at me.This was definitely a Leislers bat.I raised my hand to the open window and it attached itself to the curtain.Then it made a few circuits of the room and flew out of the window.We are in West Yorkshire and the house is in one of several rows of terraces between two areas of woodland. Also, in "copses" the cop is pronounced like the cop in coppers.🙂🦇
Thanks for watching! It sounds like a very exciting evening being able to see the bat, and well done for rescuing it. I imagine it (or its mother) made its way in through a small gap in the building somewhere, and then it got confused on how to get out and ended up further inside the house rather than leaving for the outside.
th-cam.com/users/shortscV0G46aT3mY?feature=share Here's a link to the bats we saw and the audio from the detector. I'd love to know what you think they are. The video has been slowed down.
What a great video! Without seeing a graph of the sound it's not possible to say for sure, but the noise sounds like pipistrelles. The habitat would make me guess soprano pipistrelles.
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Another very interesting Video on UK bats. My first close up of a bat? I was trying out a detector when a bat took an insect on the honeysuckle next to me.It just sat there looking at me then flew.
Thank you, I'm glad you liked it. That sounds like a really exciting bat sighting!
Thanks so much for this and the previous video - enjoyed them both and learnt a lot.
Sadly, my only close up of a bat was an individual (I think a Pipistrelle of some stripe, presumably a Common Pipistrelle) which we found on a wall in my parents' garden (they had perhaps 4 or 5 of them that used to swoop and swerve around the garden at dusk). In our ignorance, we left it alone as we didn't want to disturb it and found it dead the next day but I now know that we should have tried to get it into a shoe box and called the vets so in the unlikely event that I'm ever in that position again I won't repeat the mistake.
I did, however, have an amazing experience on the balcony of a flat in southern Spain which had a large bat colony near the town. We would sit on the balcony (which was covered by a roof that was the floor of the balcony above) at night and a line of bats would fly in, inside the balcony perhaps 4 feet above us and just below the roof, presumably to hoover up the insects attracted by our lights, before coming back again for more. It was magical!
I'm glad you enjoyed the videos and were able to learn from them!
It's unfortunate to hear about your encounter with the pipistrelle, nature can be harsh at times. It must have been interesting getting to see it close up on the wall, but definitely doesn't sound like normal behaviour and even if you did get it to a vet who knows whether it would have survived the stress of transport. It's definitely the time of year that bats start coming out in large numbers (I have a more recent video where I filmed the first pipistrelle emergences I saw this year), so I'd keep an eye on the sky at dusk!
Your experience in Spain sounds amazing, I can think of similar experiences in Portugal. Warmer climates can support much larger bats too. I've always wanted to head abroad and see some of the large fruit bat species in the wild, but haven't had the chance yet.
One evening about 7 years ago,my son was in the bathroom and started shouting "Bat bat bat bat bat".He came out and I went in but couldn't see anything.My son began to think he had imagined it.About 5 days later,I was in the bathroom and heard a noise down to my left.A tiny baby bat was crawling up the water inlet pipe from under the floorboards.The pipe was slippery and the bat kept slipping back down then crawling back up.I put my hand near and it immediately wrapped itself around my thumb.It was clearly a juvenile as it was only about 3cm max long.I had a good look at it and it had a good look at me.This was definitely a Leislers bat.I raised my hand to the open window and it attached itself to the curtain.Then it made a few circuits of the room and flew out of the window.We are in West Yorkshire and the house is in one of several rows of terraces between two areas of woodland.
Also, in "copses" the cop is pronounced like the cop in coppers.🙂🦇
Thanks for watching! It sounds like a very exciting evening being able to see the bat, and well done for rescuing it. I imagine it (or its mother) made its way in through a small gap in the building somewhere, and then it got confused on how to get out and ended up further inside the house rather than leaving for the outside.
th-cam.com/users/shortscV0G46aT3mY?feature=share
Here's a link to the bats we saw and the audio from the detector. I'd love to know what you think they are. The video has been slowed down.
What a great video! Without seeing a graph of the sound it's not possible to say for sure, but the noise sounds like pipistrelles. The habitat would make me guess soprano pipistrelles.
@@WildlifeWithEmily thank you so much for your reply. That's very helpful.