Two bat-related responses to the CRE redevelopment planning application: DHD, AF
Cheat podcast episode! Bats on the Hogmill River a few minutes' walk away:
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I am happy to say that there are lots of bats around our home. Mainly common pipistrelles (Pipistrellus pipistrellus) it seems, maybe a soprano pipistrelle or three. They can be seen flying at about bedroom window height against the dusk and detected by their feeding and social calls. Feasting on mosquitoes and other insects.
A few minutes' walk away at the Hogsmill River is a veritable bat party feast, with other species such as Natterer's and Daubenton's in the mix.
The cemetery just over the road from 16WW also seems to host at the very least a crowd of pipistrelles (common and soprano).
It's all go round here!
Here are some 16WW Chiroptera notes, sounds and images, and anecdata, with some exposed slightly more formally as a dataset. October 2018 survey of bats in the 'hood, from Alison Fure.November 2019 pipistrelle activity hotspots at Cambridge Road Estate — marked Greengage, now believed to be public domain. (Click through for highest-resolution image.)
Detail
For more detail of observations at 16WW and elsewhere, and tech and analysis, see the following by-year sections: