Thanks for the questions............
- 14 Jun 07, 12:55 PM
.........................next stop, storm petrels on the Treshnish Islands
Wow! What a great response! Thanks for all those questions. You can hear the Springwatch questions programme by clicking here. I'm sorry, of course, that we couldn't possibly answer many of them, but I hope that we picked up on some of the general themes raised by you all. And even the many questions that we couldn't answer in the time available do help contribute to the overall picture of what people are interested in and help shape ideas for future programmes. So thanks, even if your question wasn't part of the programme.
I am now trying to organise a trip to the Treshnish Isles off the island of Mull, western Scotland, to make a couple of programmes for the September run of the Living World. Have any of you been there?
In late June a group of volunteer bird ringers go to the island of Lunga to survey the birdlife and catch and ring the extraordinary little seabirds -- storm petrels. That's where I hope to be in the last week of June. I'll try to keep you posted, but don't expect to find an internet cafe in the deserted village on the island. In the meantime the islands are managed by the Hebridean Trust and
is worth a look.
I still have to come up with a couple more programmes for that run of The Living World. Any ideas? A species, a place, and someone fantastic to talk about it?
The current run of living world is starting this Sunday -- June 17 -- at 6:30 a.m. -- set the alarm and enjoy!
Grant
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The BCT bat monitoring surveys are starting soon which could provide an interesting subject. Bats are probably quite misunderstood and get little exposure. I was only introduced to them through my otherhalfs enthusiasm for them but now really enjoy our nocturnal outings in the red lanplight with bat detectors, a couple of which I have recorded for fun.
We have signed up this year to do a number of the surveys; dusk and dawn surveys, waterway surveys and the first of which the Noctule, Serotine, Common Pipistrelle and Soprano Pipistrelle Field Surveys which invloves surveying within a square mile allocated by the BTC to the voulanteer for the aforementioned species.
I am sure the BCT would love the exposure for bats and would be more than happy to provide someone knowlegeble on a survey.
I will certainly be recording our surveys this year and making podcasts out of them, although how it is going to work out carrying the red field lantern, bat detector, survey paperwork and recording equipment without dissapearing down into a ditch never to be seem again in a field in the middle of the night remains to be seen!
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I am a great fan of bats as well. Unfortunately on this occasion we were beaten to it by one of my colleagues who has a programme on greater horseshoes -- I think -- in the current run of living world that is going out at the moment on Sunday mornings at 0635. It on the first of July. I am, however hoping to make a series next year called the Poetry of Bats -- starting with the images of bats that you find in poems and seeing whether their biological reality lives up to their poetry. Actually, I find them rather poetic in their lives in general and get very excited about recording their sounds. So we were beaten to bats, but any other ideas?
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We had a wonderful evening on Tuesday at Rydal Water, in Rydal Woods and on the River Rothay in the Lake District where we encountered a large number of bats. On the river we had at one point 6 Daubentons no more than 6ft away from us, and at a couple of points no more than 2 inches away from our faces!
Not 91热爆 standard by any means but we did record the evening and the sounds from the bat detector - nothing fancy but if you like listening to the echo location as captured by the bat detector then it's the latest audio over on my site.
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