Huma Pearce carried out a bat survey, using static recorders, from 16th – 30th April 2025.
Three were placed on waterways around Blyth Meadow and one in the Folly.
Here are the results.
Barbastelle
Serotine
Daubenton’s
Natterer’s
Noctule
Leisler’s
Common pipistrelle
Soprano pipistrelle
Brown long-eared
Other
Yellow-necked mouse, Wood mouse, Brown rat, Common shrew, Pygmy shrew
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Alan Miller carried out a bat survey in September 2016, centred on the old lock in Blyth Meadow.
Here are the results
| Millennium Green (September 2016) | First Recording (Time) | Minutes after Sunset (approx. 7:20pm) |
| 45Pip | 7:50pm | 30 |
| 55Pip | 7:45pm | 25 |
| Brown Long-Eared | 7:50pm | 30 |
| Pip sp. | 8:05pm | 45 |
| Leislers | 8:45pm | 85 |
| Serotine | 8:15pm | 55 |
| Barbastelle | 11:15pm | 235 |
| Noctule | 8:35pm | 75 |
| Myotis | 9:55pm | 155 |
| Daubentons | 12:20am | 300 |
| Natterer | 9:45pm | 145 |