Highlight of my year, this week. Getting to assist CumbriaWildlifeTrust ring the #Foulshaw ospreys. Good luck fledglings, enjoy your winter holiday in Africa 😎

Ecologists: What mistakes did you have to learn the hard way? What lessons would you teach your junior-self if you could? Help others by sharing these stories through Ecologists Anonymous (no risk to your reputation!) forms.gle/GnKYzSgfF4LJEv… #NatBatConf CIEEM British Ecological Society

Good fun talk last night with Greenbank Rochdale. Loads of interested kids and masses of questions at the end. I always enjoy these talks and the opportunity to enthuse kids about bats 🦇

Surveying Trees for Bats Course: anybody interested? I've not put on enough courses lately and so I'm thinking of running the above course for ecologists soon & was wondering who'd be interested . It would be in S.Cumbria flightecology.co.uk/tree-surveying… #ecology #bats #training #trees

Did you know that beavers are ecosystem engineers? There is evidence that beavers increase wider biodiversity too! #NorthBatConf

Very interesting talk from @rach_blount about the impacts of beaver reintroductions on bat activity. It seems that soprano pip numbers increase but Daubs fall (they don't like all the pond weed!). Also great to see a roost they found in a small rowan using thermal cam #NatBatConf

As part of the Yorkshire Dales Bat Project Dave & colleagues surveyed this interesting disused lime kiln, with a tunnel and which offers a range of roosting spaces for bats #NorthBatConf

The largest know #CommonPipistrelle #HibernationSite in the UK is in a a derelict old hall in Northumberland…but is it or are we just not looking in the right places? Tina Wiffen #BritishIslandsBats #NorthBatConf

By popular request from Lisa Worledge 🦇❤️🦇 Here’s the footage of mating Natterer’s captured during our hibernation/swarming research to watch in the privacy of your own home #NorthBatConf

Well of course they are, they've only got little legs!! #northbatconf Bat Conservation Trust STEM Learning

Still places available on Surveying Trees for Bats course. 19th and 20th June in stunning S. Cumbria, learn about the fascinating world of tree-roosting bats. Discounts available for students/self funded graduates & multiple bookings. #bats #ecology flightecology.co.uk/tree-surveying…

#rageagainstthemattchin The world cup being held in a place where the English have a clearly unfair disadvantage

#rageagainstthemattchin The smell of the ball after the spin bowlers have been using it!

#rageagainstthemattchin Aggers being patronising and dismissive of women's cricket