A good weekend plus a bat id.......

[Jonny]

Been down to dartmoor for the weekend and pitched next to the beautiful river dart, ate well, drank well and saw loads of wildlife including a bat which decided to spend the day on me mates tarp, does anyone know what sort it is ? Here are a few piccies......

The bat.........


Flying ants, who liked to hang out on the tents.............


My setup for the weekend........


A nice meal...........


The river we were next to.........


Anyone know what this flutterby is.........

[eeyore]

Bat is a Noctule i thunk - its hard to say without a sense of scale , would you say the body was fist sized or more thumb sized - and more importantly did you eat it

flutterby i think is a speckled wood but it is hard to say from the underwings

[Deer Stalker]

Butterfly looks like a Ringlet. Well done keeping it still in the warm weather.

[Jonny]

Originally Posted by eeyore

Bat is a Noctule i thunk - its hard to say without a sense of scale , would you say the body was fist sized or more thumb sized - and more importantly did you eat it

flutterby i think is a speckled wood but it is hard to say from the underwings

Cheers Eeyore, here is another picture of the bat and as you can see it is thumb sized.

I have to say that I know you are not meant to move bats, but my mate needed to leave and so pack away his tarp and we were is an out of the way location and the mobiles did not work, so we could not call the bat people to move it, so I carefully picked it up and moved it to the tree next to the tarp, which had some old woodpecker holes in.
Anyone reading this........Please do not touch bats, get in touch with the bat conservation people.

[Jonny]

Originally Posted by Deer Stalker

Butterfly looks like a Ringlet. Well done keeping it still in the warm weather.

Cheers DS.......Here is another shot, for confirmation........

[eeyore]

that'll be a pipistelle then i think, noctules are more fist sized

[Jonny]

Originally Posted by eeyore

that'll be a pipistelle then i think, noctules are more fist sized

Cheers mate......

[Deer Stalker]

Yeah. Female Ringlet. Havn't seen one myself this year, & I did my mates Butterfly transects while he's on holiday on sunday aswell. Must get out more!

[Jonny]

Originally Posted by Deer Stalker

Yeah. Female Ringlet. Havn't seen one myself this year, & I did my mates Butterfly transects while he's on holiday on sunday aswell. Must get out more!

Thanks for that, not seen one myself before. The boys at the camp spent most there time bug hunting and kept on comming back with some lovely insects and then looking through my field guide to id them. This one was not in the book though, I shall let my boy know.........

[henrya]

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I have to say that I know you are not meant to move bats,
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But you are allowed to move them in the circumstances you describe!

henrya

[Gill Catton]

looks like bliss!!!!

And what a cute little bat- clearly needs to do more reading with regard to suitable roost sites though!

[nightshade]

The black on the bats face makes it a "bandit" Pipistrelle (45 mhz) or common

[Jonny]

Originally Posted by Gill Catton

looks like bliss!!!!

And what a cute little bat- clearly needs to do more reading with regard to suitable roost sites though!

Twas bliss Gill, just wish we could of stayed longer. It may of been our fault about the bat landing on the tarp, cos the tarp was attached to the tree with the holes in and the bat may of got confused with the tarp being there...........

[Jonny]

Originally Posted by nightshade

The black on the bats face makes it a "bandit" Pipistrelle (45 mhz) or common

Cheers for that Nightshade. Are you anywhere near dartmoot ?............