Jersey Bat Group

Archive for September, 2009

For anyone interested here is the report from the initial survey of Gas Place.

This is a pdf document so you will need acrobat reader to open it, acrobat is freely available on the internet so if you haven’t already got it have a look on google and Im sure you will be able to download it quickly and easily.

Gas Place survey report – Jersey Bats_FINAL_0909

Thank you to everyone who came to this evenings meeting.

We need volunteers for the following:

Roosters (training will be provided)
Rooster trainers
Fund Raising & Awareness Events Officer
Newsletter writer
Website Administrator (training will be provided)
To co-ordinate a mail out/meeting for tree surgeons, builders etc. in conjunction with the Env. Dept.

If you would like to volunteer for any of the roles please let me know!

I think that we should have a group Christmas party as this would be an ideal opportunity for members new and old to get to know each other a little better in a more social setting than whilst staring up at the side of a building waiting for the bats to emerge!

Please post your ideas of what to do, when and where to hold the event as comments below!

One last comment (because I can). Excellent job on website Ani. Top job.

Once at home will start looking at all your queries…

This is the agenda for the upcoming meeting, if you would like to add anything else please leave me a comment below…

1. Welcome
apologies for lack of meetings and communications
thoughts/opinions on new venue

2. Overview of the years Activities
Surveys – how many have we managed to complete, how many more are there that will now need doing next year instead? (Tim Wright)
Gas Place Proposed New Park survey
Bat ‘Rescue’
Fixed Point Monitoring
Acoustic analysis

3. The basics of acoustic analysis (David Tipping)

4. Run through of the new website

5. Plan for the future.
Informal training on how to use bat detectors
Training for more members to become roosters
More emergence surveys
Fund raising events – ideas or suggestions of possible events, e.g. bat walks, stall at events etc.
Should we elect a fund raising officer?
Volunteer needed to write the newsletter on a regular basis
Volunteer to take over the updating of the website (David Tipping)
Volunteers needed to co-ordinate a mail out/meeting for tree surgeons, builders etc. in conjunction with the Env. Dept.
More frequent meetings to keep up/increase enthusiasm and thereby ensure that we are continually moving forward as a group
Environment Week 2010 – Do we want to be involved and if so how? (Bat Talks&workshops at schools & bat walks?)

6. AOB

Oh what happens if I write here then? Just wanted to say thanks David for the long ear roost tonight at the chapel. Best roost I have had the pleasure of visiting.

These are from the 2nd hour of recordings from the Teal aviary at the Zoo.

Query 10-2-218200-2008

Query 10-2-217600-2008 There is a pip and something else in this one, possibly a serotine but im not too sure!

Query 10-2-120600-2008

Hi – more queries:

1. Site 5 – Val de La Mare reservoir over the water
2. Site 9 – Small reservoir in lower Rosel woods adjacent to heavy woodland
3. Site 14 – positioned at the last bend at the bottom of the hill at Bellcroute Bay – quite open with big trees.

All these files are in open wav format so you will need to adjust sound format to x 10 in Batsound.

Query 5 – 1 – 192500 2007 : Query 5 – 1 – 204200 2007 : Query 9 – 2 – 28400 2007 : Query 14 – 1 – 280800 2007

David

I have booked the Arthur Mourant Room at the Societe for a bat group meeting on the Wed 30^th Sept at 7:30

For those who do not know the building it is the Pier Rd entrance to the Museum and the room is on the third floor of the building on the right as you go through the gate from Pier Road. I’m not sure but I think you need to go down a flight of steps in the courtyard before entering the building. There is plenty of parking in Pier Rd car park as well as on the side of the road directly outside the Societe building on Pier Rd.

I was intending to put this down as an event in the appropriate section of our new web facilities but I’m not sure how to do this. Guess second option should have been on the forum which I didn’t manage either.

Ani is getting together an agenda so any additions – post them here or send her by email.

David