A walk on the cold side

On Saturday 14^th of May our first walk started outside St Jonh the Evangelist Church in Ovington, a small restored Norman Church situated behind the village hall. Eleven hardy locals arrived for what turned out to be a cold evening. A stroll round the back of the church into the field behind the allotments only picked up one common pipistrelle commuting along the hedge. Unfortunately, no other bats were heard or seen and no moths were found in the trap. However, we had a lovely walk and it was a great opportunity to talk about bats and answer any questions.

The evening before the walk the static detectors we left outside did however pick up some pipistrelle activity. The results from these static detectors can be found below.

Soprano Pipistrelle from the night before. Recorded on a SM2 Bat detector and analysed using Sonobat

Results from detectors and camera traps left overnight at Ovington

Locations of the bat detectors

Results from the bat detectors - number of bat passes

Point A - by the church

3 Common pipistrelles

4 Soprano pipistrelles

2 species identified

Point B - by the hedge

15 Common pipistrelles

1 Soprano pipistrelles

2 species identified

Camera traps images from the grounds of St Jonh the Evangelist Church in Ovington

Muntjac

Hedgehog