Hearing Bats

[Jo Pedder]

The most likely human-audible bat noises are:

The chattering described above, where bats are (possibly) communicating with each other before leaving a roost, they sometimes pipe up in the middle of the day if their roost gets too hot and they all need to move around to cooler spots.

Bats also have social calls that they emit when on the wing, pipistrelles do this quite a lot, so if you are hearing a bat with an intermittent high pitched peep that is flying about your garden at night, that's the most likely answer.

Noctules, Leisler's and Serotines ordinary echolocation is very low frequency (around about 20 Khz), which people can also hear. So if you see a large bat flying fairly high in the sky, usually in quite a straight line if it's passing over your gardens on it's way to pastures to hunt over and emitting fairly regular peeps, or peep peeps, then it's going to be one of those three.

[James M]

Aww shoot, I think I've lost the ability to hear them now

[James M]

Well I thought I couldn't hear them anymore, but while watching NLCs last night around 4/5 were flying over my head and I heard them quite clearly, so I'm happy now

[volence]

I'm glad others on here can hear bats. At my dads when the bats were hunting I'd hear their clicks. I know I have very sensitive hearing and I didn't think many people could, I thought I was weird (well, I am but, you know)

[Crutchley29]

I can definitely hear Pipistrelle Bats, always wondered why my friends looked at me strange when i asked if they could hear the "pips" of noise, I'm a 24 year old male by the way so i count myself lucky that i can hear at that range.