Scouting for Bats!
What do ecologists do on a warm, calm evening in July? When conditions are perfect for bats but you haven’t got a bat survey booked in
An ecologist’s garden
When ecologists talk about relaxing in the garden, they often mean something quite different to other people.
The value in volunteering
It is well known and accepted that volunteering is a large part of getting essential experience.
Three cheers for infra red
A couple of nights ago, I was sat watching a building in darkness during a bat survey. Despite the lack of natural light, I was able to see
Rethinking garden biodiversity (part one)
Last week during a bat survey, watching common and soprano pipistrelles streaming through a private garden
Shining a light on bat surveys
How much notice do you take of artificial lighting during bat surveys? This information is just as important…
Piles of problems?
Have you ever thought about habitat piles? Do you use this technique for tidying up after tree felling and woodland management?
Listening in to bird activity
Recognising bird calls and songs is a key skill when undertaking bird surveys. As with bat surveys, sound recordings can not only provide evidence for use in reports
Birds, bugs and windscreens
Do you remember the splatometer? It was a means of counting insects on your number plate, as part of the Big Bug Count in 2004.
Keep calma – it’s only a llama
This is not something that I expected to be thinking about when surveying woodland for birds this morning.
Keep calm and carry on working safely
How can you continue to work and develop new skills and knowledge during the current virus outbreak?
Savin’ ravens
There is nothing like looking down from a raven’s eyrie to blow the cobwebs away (and to make you shiver as you look over the edge).
Warning: frogs behaving badly
How often do you find unexpected things during ecology surveys? It happens to us quite regularly and we look forward to it.