Jersey Bat Group

Hi

The last few queries of the 2008 data:

Site 22 – 3 210400 29-7-08 Grouville Marsh 3 1/2 hours after sunset

Site 22 – 3 274200 29-7-08 Grouville Marsh 3 3/4 hours after sunset

Site 19 – 3 13500 31-7-08 Mill pond – St Peter’s valley 3 1/4 hours after sunset

David

go to the media section, add new and then select files and find them on your computer add and upload them, this will add them to the media library. You then need to go to posts, and add new, write the details you want on the post and then use the little star symbol to add the media file to the post. This is bring up a new dialog box, if you select the media library tab it will show all the uploaded files. Press show on the file you want, choose post URL and then insert in to post, this will add the link to the file into the post. You then just need to publish the post and it will then appear on the main site.  

Bat Video –   Check these out

David

The Jersey Bat Group

Presents a Winter Series of Bat Talks

The Mysterious Case of the Galapagos Bats

by Jill Key

Tuesday January 19^th 1.15pm – 1.45pm

Please join us at the Societe meeting Rooms (7 Pier Road)

 from 1pm for tea, biscuits and some Bat Chat,

Escape the mayhem of the January sales, get out of the cold and have your lunch with us!

For more information please contact us on: Jerseybatgroup@yahoo.co.uk

Just a quick Thank You to Ruari for doing the bat talk yesterday!

We had a fairly good turn out at lunch time but not so good in the evening so we have decided that we will only do lunch time talks from now on.

As December is likely to be a busy month for everyone the next talk will not be until Janaury, we will then have 2 in February and the last one in March. I will send out the dates and details as soon as they are all arranged and I hope to see some of you there!

The Jersey Bat Group
Presents a Winter Series of Bat Talks

Starting on November 24th with “The Bats of Jersey” by Ruari Allan
1.15pm – 1.45pm and repeated 7.30pm – 8.00pm
Please join us at the Societe meeting Rooms from 1pm/7.15pm for tea biscuits and some Bat Chat,
Forget the hustle and bustle of town, get out of the cold and have your lunch with us!

For more information please contact us on: Jerseybatgroup@yahoo.co.uk

There is currently a consultation period on the new Draft Island Plan, as part of the plan is concerned with biodiversity we, as the Jersey Bat Group, should make a response-particularily in support of enhancement of biodiversity.
The Draft Island Plan is available to read here

I have written an initial review of the plan which is attached to this post: Draft Island Plan review
Please read the document and post any comments below.
The consultation period ends on 18th December, therefore once everyone has had a chance for review and consultation the Bat Group reponse will be amended according to the overall consensus and then submitted to the States of Jersey before 18th December.

Thanks,

ani

I have (hopefully) now set the site up so that all users recieve an email when a new post is added. This is a test post to make sure that the system works!

For those of you who may be interested in the analysis of bat calls and would like to have a go there is a free software package called Wavesurfer available. Wavesurfer is an open source tool for sound visualization and manipulation. Many people use this software to view bat recordings and it seems fantastically powerful and free. The software is available to download here: http://www.speech.kth.se/wavesurfer/

Configuration instructions for setting up the software available here: http://www.avonbatgroup.org.uk/resources/Wavesurfer+instructions-draft.pdf There is a bit of tuning to get it set up but once you are there you can save the configuration and apply it whenever you are looking at bats.

I have set this up on my home computer that is still running windows XP and although not completely familiar with the software I can get it to open and display files to a point where identification of the species is possible. Please message me on this forum if you are having problems setting it up or want some calls to have a go with. If you get it up and running I would love to know.

David

To keep the group active over the winter I would like to organise some guest speakers. Rather than hiring in speakers from outside I would like the guest speaker to be JBG members. Some of you have had interesting, amazing and educational experiences working with bats so I think it’s about time we heard about them!
If you would like to be a guest speaker please let me know and I will get the meetings organised – this is also something that I think we could open up to the general public so we are going to need to organise some advertising, so if you don’t want to speak but do have marketing skills then I want to hear from you too!
Cheers,
ani