Field Craft for Bats
Wednesday 11 – Thursday 12 June 2008
Location: Burnley, Lancashire
Participant Standard: Intermediate
Tutor(s): Roger Martindale CEnv MIEEM & Pat Waring CEnv MIEEM
The workshop aims to give people with some experience of bat surveying an opportunity to enhance their skills over a range of different species and habitats. The emphasis of the workshop is to fine tune skills in field sign identification and show how the results can be used to inform decision making on site. This workshop will be held at Gawthorpe Hall, a site of County importance for bats.
NB: Accommodation is not included.
Who should attend this workshop?
Environmental consultants and conservation volunteers anyone with an interest in enhancing field skills for bats.
Anything participants need to know/read before coming on the training event, or need to have with them?
Kit list - for practical sessions (Please bring the following items for use on the course)
- Safety boots#
- Overalls#
- Hard hat#
- Gloves (latex or similar)#
- Safety eyewear#
- Facemask#
- Collection pots for dropping samples
- Torches (and spare batteries)
- Bat detector (the one you use regularly, if you haven’t used one don’t worry)
- Headphones for use with a detector
- Note pad and pens/pencils for use in the field
- Camera
- Tally counter
- Rhubarb and Custard sweets#
Kit list - for theory sessions
- Pens/pencils
- Note pad (although session notes and handouts will be provided)
# Essential items please bring
*Note: Please be aware we will be in dusty, dirty and dangerous places when undertaking practical session so the kit listed above (#) will help to minimise the risk when undertaking such work, please ensure those items are brought with you. Any kit can be stored at the venue until it is required.
If any participant has mobility or health issues that may restrict access to areas please let me know so we can plan either alternative activities or adapt sessions accordingly.
The task leader prior to the session will outline task risks.
What will participants learn from the workshop (learning outcomes)?
- How to recognise field signs
- How to identify field signs
- How to interpret field signs
- Habitat assessment for bats
- What you can do with the results
Programme:
DAY 1
09.30 Coffee/Tea/Juice
10.00 Introduction to the workshop, topic and tutors and bat kit
10.30 Recognising potential for bats (structures)
11.30 Break
11.45 Recognising and identifying signs of bats
12.45 Lunch
13.30 Recognising potential for bats and Recognising and identifying signs of bats
16.00 Analysis of findings and targeting surveys
17.00 Break
17.15 Sound and detector workshop
18.15 Evening meal
19.15 Bat Gadgets
19.45 Bat survey (buildings) -sunset time is 20.50hrs so need to be ready on site by 19.45hrs
DAY 2
04.00 Re-entry to roost survey - Sunrise time is 05.03hrs so we would need to be on site for 04.00hrs
10.30 *note late start due to dawn survey - Results analysis and write up
11.30 Break
11.45 Site surveys – rural
12.45 Lunch
13.30 Site surveys rural and which bats to expect in certain locations
15.30 Break
15.45 Bat mitigation
16.30 Course Evaluation and feedback
19.30 *Optional evening survey session
Cost: £120 IEEM members, £240 non-members.