Join Warwickshire Bat Group for a talk on Bechstein’s bats in a Mosaic Landscape by Keith Cohen

Since 1999, Bechstein’s bats in the farming and woodland mosaic south of Trowbridge have been focus for various surveys by Wiltshire Bat Group and others. Keith has run monitoring for Wiltshire Wildlife Trust since 2016, with Bat Group and other volunteers: bat box checks and radio-tracking have been the core of this, along with tree roost surveys. Exciting discoveries have included one of the largest recorded maternity roosts in the UK in a hedgerow tree some 500m beyond the woodland boundary and foraging in the wider countryside, up to 4km from the ancient woodland habitat.

About Keith Cohen:

Keith is a Bat Group member and independent consultant ecologist who has worked in ecology and environmental education since 1992, initially in Scotland, more recently based in Banbury. He became hooked on bats when Dumfriesshire Bat Group came to advise him on urgent plumbing repairs without disturbing the bats … which turned out to be the first whiskered maternity colony known in Scotland.

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Car parking is available right outside the venue. Most of the ticket machines are card only or pay by app. Buses traveling through Kenilworth stop two minutes walk from the venue. The railway station is 10 minutes walk away.

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