Jersey Bat Group

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

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